The Billion-Dollar Warehouse Sale

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The GAO found ICE wasted tens of millions on ill-conceived detention plans. $75B since January, 11 warehouses for $1B, 7 now for sale, zero detainees housed. Full sources on the episode page.

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RECEIPTS (the sources behind this episode): • ICE has wasted tens of millions of dollars with 'uninformed' detention plans,...: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ice-has-wasted-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-with-uninformed-detention-plans-gao-finds • ICE wasted millions on detention without strategic plan, GAO says: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/25/ice-detention-expansion-waste-gao-report • U.S. GAO - Immigration Detention: Urgent Planning Needed to Avoid Further Was...: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108663 • ICE wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in rapid push to expand detention cap...: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-spending-detention-capacity-gao-report/ • Trump's "big, beautiful bill" gives ICE unprecedented funds to ramp up mass d...: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-funding-big-beautiful-bill-trump-deportations/ • Page 1 GAO-26-108663 Immigration Detention Expansion 441 G St. N.W.: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108663.pdf • ICE Spent $1B on Warehouses, Never Used One | Legis1: https://legis1.com/news/ice-warehouses-detention-spending-spent-1b-never • ICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on 'uninformed' detention projects...: https://apnews.com/article/ice-detention-waste-gao-report-7909a2cf777672e1483f5ed232e93cba • Pentagon spent millions on migrant detention supplies that were never used, w...: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/10/01/pentagon-spent-millions-on-migrant-detention-supplies-that-were-never-used-watchdog-says/ • Mediabias: https://mediabias.news/politics/gao-florida-detention-centre-cost-171-more-than-ice-median • 'Alligator Alcatraz' is closed, but a $600 million question remains: Will Flo...: https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/i-team-investigates/alligator-alcatraz-is-closed-but-a-600-million-question-remains-will-florida-taxpayers-get-stuck-with-the-bill • Does each ICE deportation cost taxpayers at least $17,000?: https://wisconsinwatch.org/2025/11/immigration-ice-deportation-taxpayer-cost-customs-enforcement/ • Does each ICE deportation cost taxpayers at least $17,000? - MinnPost: https://www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/2025/11/does-each-ice-deportation-cost-taxpayers-at-least-17000/ • Federal report finds ICE wasted millions on detention expansion: https://www.azfamily.com/2026/09/25/federal-report-finds-ice-wasted-millions-detention-expansion/ • Government Accountability Office - The view of the 2024 eclipse outside of GA... (on screen at 2m30s): https://www.yelp.com/biz/government-accountability-office-washington • GAO headquarters building Washington D.C (on screen at 2m30s): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:General_Accounting_Office_Building • Senate floor vote budget reconciliation (on screen at 2m42s): https://www.nado.org/budget-reconciliation/ • U S Marines support Migrant Holding Operations (8863038) (on screen at 5m38s): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U_S_Marines_support_Migrant_Holding_Operations_(8863038).jpg • U S Marines support Migrant Holding Operations (8863125) (on screen at 5m38s): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U_S_Marines_support_Migrant_Holding_Operations_(8863125).jpg • Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center Tent Facility (on screen at 5m38s): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guantanamo_Migrant_Operations_Center_Tent_Facility.jpg • U.S. Navy sailors and Coast Guardsmen erect expeditionary shelter tents in su... (on screen at 5m56s): https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/guantanamo-bay-migrants-tent-facilities/index.html • Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Illegal Alien Holding Operations (8862930) (on screen at 5m56s): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naval_Station_Guantanamo_Bay_Illegal_Alien_Holding_Operations_(8862930).jpg • FILE - Trucks come and go from the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention... (on screen at 6m21s): https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5862592/detainees-alligator-alcatraz-transferred • In an aerial view from a helicopter, the migrant detention center, dubbed "Al... (on screen at 6m21s): https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5495636/judge-halts-construction-alligator-alcatraz-florida • 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center gone after DeSantis announc... (on screen at 7m03s): https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/floridas-alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detention-center-has-closed-governor-says/3833521/

Short cuts

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Three weeks before Election Day, the government's own auditors published the receipt.

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Between January and April, ICE purchased eleven warehouses.

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The White House directs the military to prepare Guantánamo Bay for thirty thousand immigration detainees.

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Here is the Department of Homeland Security's spokesperson, responding to the GAO report.

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They bought eleven warehouses for one billion seventy million dollars.

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ICE bought eleven warehouses for a billion dollars. Zero detainees.

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