{"id":231677,"date":"2026-04-02T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:12:07","slug":"homeland-security-pauses-warehouse-purchases-for-migrant-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231677\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security pauses warehouse purchases for migrant housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as it&#8217;s reviewing the contracts signed under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/local-democrats-urge-ice-to-reconsider-east-side-migrant-processing-center-plan-border-immigration-trump-san-antonio#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local Democrats urge ICE to reconsider East Side migrant processing center plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re learning that buildings and warehouses like the one on the east side already purchased are also being scrutinized.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cwork with community leaders\u201d and \u201cbe good partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/new-details-on-wearhouse-to-be-turned-into-ice-processing-center-texas-mexico-immigration-detention-department-of-homeland-security#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Massive San Antonio warehouse to be turned into 1,500-bed ICE processing center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added that it \u201creeked of corruption,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>He also believed it could be detrimental to the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s a lot of harm that could come to this city, a lot of division,&#8221; said Calbert. &#8220;There\u2019s a lot of disruption that could happen from protests and things of that nature. There\u2019s a whole domino of doom that the whole east and southeast region is bracing itself for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; The Department of Homeland Security is pausing the purchase of new warehouses intended to house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-231677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231677","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=231677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}