There is a peculiar kind of sociopathy required to wake up, order an overnight package, and decide that the same model should be applied to human beings. Yet, this is exactly the "business" I.C.E Director Todd Lyons proposed during a “Border Security Expo” in Phoenix: a hub-and-spoke network of mega-warehouses where the "product" is a human being.

Todd Lyons stood at that podium back in April and talked about moving human beings from Point A to Point B in forty-eight hours like he was pitching a logistics contract. Internal documents — leaked, obviously, because nobody’s proud enough to put their name on this in the light of day — outline their plan for a “feeder system.”

Seven massive industrial warehouses, and 16 smaller ones. All located near airstrips for rapid deportation. They want these buildings to hold five to ten thousand people per building. The smaller warehouses would be used for staging meaning used for initial processing, identification, and "sorting" of detainees immediately after arrest. The "mega centers" would be export hubs.

You know how they’ve “solved the bottleneck” till now? Firing immigration judges and not even looking for new ones according to their FOIA response. You don't fire the entire judiciary because you want a more efficient legal process; you fire the judges because you want to bypass the legal process. Which they’ve tried. Repeatedly trying to use the National Guard as makeshift immigration judges.

As pointed out by Arturo Dominguez, they are pushing for “100 million” deportations. There are only fifty-one million immigrants in this country. Total. Foreign-born individuals, legal or otherwise. Fifty-one million. That’s naturalized citizens, green-card holders, and undocumented. There are 65 million Latinos total. There are an estimated 48 million black folks in America. You don’t get to a hundred million without de-naturalizing citizens.

That’s why they keep pushing for “remigration” a word adopted from the European far-right. It’s a polite, “intellectual” way of saying ethnic cleansing. And yes, this is an actual photo I pulled from the official White House Facebook page.

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In late 2025, the Department of Homeland Security awarded a contract to KPB Services LLC (a subsidiary of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s economic arm). The listed reason for the contract is "due diligence services and concept design" meaning identifying potential warehouses, locations, and deciding how the factories would work.

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has since vowed to cancel this contract after members of the community outcry because — shockingly — nobody thought to ask the people living there if they were okay with it.

But that doesn’t mean it’s over. They will find another contractor. Once you have the blueprints for a cage, the cage is already halfway built. What happens when these designs move from Todd Lyons head to the earth? We all know that if they build these facilities, they won't tear them down when the immigrants are gone. They will simply find a new category of 'unperson' to fill the space.

They’re just sketching out the floor plan for the new American Gulag — for the homeless, the mentally ill, the addict, the dissenter — and calling it 'innovation.'

Warehouses are typically "shells" designed to keep goods dry, not to provide the high-frequency air exchanges required for health. In a standard warehouse, air circulation is minimal.

The insulation is non-existent. They are heat islands in August and ice boxes in January. And the plumbing? The sewer lines are designed for a warehouse staff of less than a hundred. To support 10,000+ people, they’d have to tear up the concrete slabs and the foundation of the entire building to lay miles of new pipe. Which they won’t do. They haven't done it for the tent camps like Alligator Alcatraz, ‘Deportation Depot’ and Lonestar Lockup; why would they do it here?

Head of DHS, Kristi Noem, has already admitted that the cruelty is the point. The inhumane conditions are supposed to “incentivize” people to give up their rights and agree to deportation.

If a fire were to break out, people will die. The sprinklers are sparsely hung, made to handle high-piled cardboard and plastic. Once they start putting walls up inside, they’re going to create areas that the sprinklers can’t reach. The fire code for warehouses assume a low occupant load. There aren't enough exits. There aren't wide enough corridors. If a fire starts in a "Mega-Center," people will die.

Warehouses often burn significantly faster and more intensely than other buildings like houses or offices. While a house fire might stay contained to a single room for several minutes, a warehouse fire can engulf thousands of square feet in a very short time.

If you haven’t yet, go ahead and search the internet for an image or a story of a warehouse fire. Now picture 10,000 people packed into one, and tell me how many people you believe are surviving that? Employees and detainees.

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