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And their plan to turn it into a prison camp was a go.
But then just a few days after that, a spokesman for ICE said, actually, never mind, that was a mistake.
The Trump administration hasn't bought that warehouse.
Our bad.
We didn't mean it.
We accidentally sent out that statement in error.
So now maybe it's not happening?
All around the country, this plan to buy up warehouses, to turn them into massive Trump prison camps, it has been more than chaotic.
It has been filled with chaos and disinformation and misinformation and reversals from the administration.
but maybe Chester really has won this.
Weird, late-breaking detail in this story.
On Friday, just a few days ago, a Republican New York State Assemblyman says he talked to a senior advisor at ICE about this.
What were the circumstances of that conversation?
Well, he said he randomly bumped into the person on an overseas military deployment.
Okay.
After that happenstance meeting, the assemblyman says he got confirmation from ICE that, in fact, Trump will not build that prison camp in Chester, New York, after all.
What kind of process is that?
I have no idea.
But for now, it seems like the people of Chester, New York, and their elected officials might have won this.
They might have stopped this prison camp from being built in their town.