SAN ANTONIO – With the recent sale of an East Side building to house an ICE Detention Facility, there is growing concern over what comes next.

Now, Precinct 4 County Commissioner Tommy Calvert is fighting back to prevent the center from making San Antonio home.

Right now, there is no timeline as to when this detention facility will come to the East Side, but County Commissioner Tommy Calvert is calling for legal action to scrutinize the process behind the facility’s purchase.

Calvert says the city of San Antonio and Bexar County need to file an injunction to determine if an environmental impact study was done. Those can take anywhere from 18-months to years to complete. That would include the impact on nearby schools in the area off Houston Street on the East side.

Calvert also does not think there was an appraisal done on the property, since more than $66 million dollars was paid for a building, and it was appraised at around $37 million.

He adds that it “reeks of corruption,” and wants to look into the federal funding of the facility. If money was co-mingled from different military branches domestically, it could be breaking congressional authorized uses of funding

Calvert warns that this center could be detrimental not only to the Southeast side of town, but also to the entire city itself. He says,

“It puts a mark on the city of San Antonio and Bexar County. A mark that may end up in boycott. People ending up boycotting communities like ours that allow things like this to proceed in our name in our taxpayers’ name, so there’s a lot of harm that could come to this city a lot of division. There’s a lot of disruption that could happen from protests and things of that nature. There’s a whole domino of doom that the whole East and Southeast region is bracing itself for.”

Calvert is now requesting U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar investigate whether federal funds were used properly.

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The pair is also looking into what the building will be used for and how many people will be housed at the facility.