Cruelty against immigrants has been a cornerstone of Trump’s authoritarian agenda. Over the past year, we’ve seen this cruelty up close as the regime’s secret police raids our neighborhoods, separates families, and rips apart communities. But behind the scenes, the Department of Homeland Security has also been quietly working to scale up their ability to detain and disappear people in massive numbers. DHS is actively scouting, purchasing, and planning to convert 23 warehouses nationwide into new detention and processing facilities. This would massively expand their detention capacity, make it even more difficult to expose the inhumane conditions immigrants face in ICE custody, and increase the likelihood for abuse and death. We need to band together now to oppose the warehousing of humans in the US. The good news is, we’re already seeing early wins in this fight. Local activists have helped prevent the construction or conversion of 12 new detention centers across the country. This includes warehouses in rural areas and deep red states, where we’ve even seen some Republican Members of Congress publicly oppose DHS’s planned warehouse conversions.