{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Radio Chatskill","title":"Proposed ICE Processing Warehouse in Orange County Raises Local Concerns","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":389,"description":"A proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Chester, New York, is drawing sharp reactions from local officials and residents, as details emerge about a national plan to speed up immigrant detention and deportation.The Chester site would be one of 16 smaller processing facilities proposed across the country, according to internal federal documents first reported by The Washington Post. Investigative reporter Sarah Trafton of the Times Union says the goal is to streamline the early stages of immigration enforcement.Located in the village of Chester, the 401,000-square-foot warehouse is part of a larger plan to house 80,000 immigrants in warehouses across the country. “The warehouse in Chester — it’s proposed as one of 16 processing facilities throughout the country,” Trafton said. “And the idea is that rather than the existing system, that this would speed up the process of detaining and deporting immigrants.”Formerly the Pep Boys Warehouse, the facility would be Orange County’s second U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.Under the plan, immigrants would first be taken to these short-term processing sites before being transferred elsewhere.“So once they go through those initial processing centers, then they would be sent to one of seven larger warehouses that are being proposed,” she said. “And that’s where they’d be detained before being deported.”Trafton emphasized that the Chester facility would not function as a long-term detention center.“The proposal specifically focuses on short-term, quote-unquote, processing,” she said. “These facilities wouldn’t be like the long-term detainment facilities. It would just be sort of to process the immigrants and then essentially funnel them to another facility where they’d be held until their eventual deportation.”Local officials say they were not consultedOne of the biggest sources of concern locally is how the proposal surfaced.“The folks that we talked to really, I think, were very...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q7XXsnSXT_u4mZLCn3chUorwDmUD_kWiB272D6emB18/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Uy/OGY5MWUwZThkYTEw/NDVkZGM2ZGZkZDIw/ZjliOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}