Nate Blouin
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 24 Mar
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Thank you, Rachel.
Appreciate it.
People feel betrayed.
This happened out of nowhere.
We saw overnight this transaction for, as you called out earlier, $50 million over the appraised value of this site.
And people are so frustrated.
They want leaders who are going to step up and be accountable for the decisions that they're getting made.
And we have not had any of that accountability here in Utah.
Our governor recently invited this in and said that he supports having such a facility, but we have had
strong local leaders in Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County standing up and speaking out against this and really making sure that our constituents feel heard and that we have the opportunity to get involved in this process and to actually make a difference.
As you also mentioned, we did shut down a similar facility months ago.
And for this to come out of nowhere and again, for someone to be making tens of millions of dollars off of it is just so unconscionable in the current environment.
Well, you know, I am running for Congress, and I think that's where we're going to make this difference is we need to lean in with the power that Democrats are going to take back in November and to hold hearings and to hold everyone accountable to abolish ICE and to make sure that we are actually going after the people who have made these decisions.
establishing where this money is coming from, because this is taxpayer dollars that are getting spent far over the budgets of what we should be spending.
And frankly, we shouldn't be spending any money on these sorts of internment camps.
Utah has a history with internment camps, and we don't need more of them in our backyard.
So I think we need to be exercising every single option here.
We need our local governments to step in and say no to permits and for infrastructure, for water, for the safety needs that these are going to bring along.
At the protest I was at just last week,
We saw people lining the streets and trucks were having a hard time getting by.
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