Majestic Realty Co., the owners, said the Department of Homeland Security had contacted them to discuss purchasing the property. The California-based company said it has not \u2013 and will not \u2013 allow the property to be used as a detention facility for migrants. <\/p>\n
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By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for the long-term relationship we have with Mayor Mario Vasquez and the city of Hutchins and look forward to continuing our work to find a buyer or lease tenant that will help drive economic growth,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n Vasquez said he had told the company that using the warehouse for detention would \u201cdevastate\u201d Hutchins.<\/p>\n The Hutchins warehouse was identified as one of four new ICE detention centers in Texas as the agency looks to expand detention space for those who are arrested and awaiting deportation. <\/p>\n DHS has already purchased properties in El Paso and San Antonio as part of the new expansion plan. <\/p>\n Sarah Loicano, a spokeswoman for ICE\u2019s Dallas office, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. <\/p>\n The Rev. Eric Folkerth, a senior pastor at Kessler Park United Methodist Church, said Monday that he was thrilled to hear the company rejected ICE\u2019s outreach. <\/p>\n He believes that community pressure and outrage likely influenced the decision by the company to not sell the property. <\/p>\n \u201cPeople are rightly questioning the need for a mega center when, right now, thousands without criminal records are being detained,\u201d Folkerth said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2013 The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,145,1724,27],"class_list":["post-167053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ICE](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771272139_406_ZLTNLATJYRFJRBM2XR2XMKN37U.jpg\")
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