Carl Icahn’s Connection to a New Upstate ICE Holding Center

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The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with plans to open a new immigrant-detention facility in a small town upstate, and the warehouse where it’s supposed to be located is owned by none other than former Trump adviser Carl Icahn. As the Monroe Gazette first reported after the DHS posted a January 8 advisory on the plan, the former Pep Boys warehouse at 29 Elizabeth Drive in Chester is owned by an IEP Chester LLC, a subsidiary of Carl Icahn’s holding company, Icahn Enterprises. The facility is part of a wider plan by the Trump administration to escalate Immigration and Customs…