SAN ANTONIO – The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants.

This comes as it’s reviewing the contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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We’re learning that buildings and warehouses like the one on the east side already purchased are also being scrutinized.

This comes as the new Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, was sworn in last week to lead a department. He has said during his confirmation hearing that he wanted to “work with community leaders” and “be good partners.”

Here locally, city and county leaders have scrutinized the purchase of an East Side warehouse by the government to house migrants. Precinct 4 County Commissioner Tommy Calvert said he didn’t think there was an appraisal done on the property, since more than $66 million was paid for the building, and it was appraised at around $37 million.

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He added that it “reeked 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 congressionally authorized uses of funding.

He also believed it could be detrimental to the city.

“There’s a lot of harm that could come to this city, a lot of division,” said Calbert. “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.”

Mullin inherited a $38.3 billion plan to boost detention capacity to 92,000 beds by acquiring eight large-scale detention centers, capable of housing 7,000 to 10,000 detainees each, and 16 smaller regional processing centers.