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Story summary
- ICE plans to establish immigrant detainee processing sites to detain more than 80,000 immigrants nationwide.
- The plan includes sites in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Glendale, Arizona, each with a capacity of 500 to 1,500 detainees before transfer to larger detention centers.
- Larger detention centers would hold 5,000 to 10,000 detainees.
- The Department of Homeland Security has not confirmed details.
- Merrimack's town manager expressed surprise at the news, noting the town was unaware of the proposal.
