WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Sen. Roger Wicker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Kristi Noem. He expressed opposition to a proposed DHS plan to purchase a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, and to convert it into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center. The warehouse is designed as an industrial site to attract economic investment in Mississippi. Converting this site into an ICE detention facility would strain the existing local infrastructure and foreclose on economic opportunities better suited for this site.
Below is the full text of the letter.
"Dear Secretary Noem:
It has come to my attention that U.S. Immigrat...