Garrett Epps
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Mar
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Coming up... They never came out and said, we are planning a really nifty detention center here.
Thanks for having me.
The helicopter was something that was won by the Newport Fisherman's Wives, a very highly organized group of families of the people who staffed the fishery.
The rescue helicopters arrived.
Each was about 100 miles away.
So they just went to their members of Congress and they said, we need the helicopter here because there's so much danger.
And they got Congress to pass a special statute that said the Coast Guard couldn't move an air station without giving 18 months public notice.
So this was the situation until last fall.
when they found out that with no notice, the Department of Homeland Security had taken the helicopter and moved it down to the southern border.
So the idea being that the priority now is interdicting migrants coming in from Mexico.
That's more important than the Coast Guard's function of providing rescue.
Well, you know, they never came out and said, we are planning a really nifty detention center here.
What they did do is federal contractors began contacting local businesses and saying things like,
let's suppose we need to rent 200 hotel rooms for federal employees who might be coming in at some facility or other.
And it became clear that Department of Homeland Security had its eye on the Newport Airport and that they were planning to put in an ICE detention center there, but they gave no notice and they did not respond to questions from city officials or members of the public or members of Congress.
Newport is a town of 10,000 folks.
800 people showed up.
No one spoke in favor of an ICE facility.
People said it's unfair.
ICE is treating people badly.
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