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We write on behalf of Hagerstown Rapid Response, the Washington County Branch of the NAACP, and the ACLU of Maryland to express our profound concern about the impacts of DHS’s rushed plan to convert an empty warehouse at 16220 Wright Road in Williamsport, MD, into a detention camp housing thousands of people each week, beginning next month.1 We understand that DHS’s stated goal, as expressed last year by then-Acting ICE Director Tom Homan, is to turn ICE’s detention system into something “like Amazon Prime, but with human beings.”2 Doing that here will create enormous burdens that our local community and environment are simply not equipped to handle—and certainly not at the rapid pace with which DHS is moving.