FILE - Homes in suburban Salt Lake City are shown, April 13, 2019. According to estimates released Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. population grew by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, and the nation now has 333.2 million residents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

DHS Scraps Salt Lake Immigration Detention Facility

(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Department of Homeland Security is abandoning plans to turn a massive Salt Lake City warehouse into an immigration detention facility. A federal court filing yesterday revealed DHS no longer intends to convert the 833-thousand-square-foot property near Salt Lake City International Airport. The federal government bought the warehouse in March for about 145-million-dollars, prompting opposition and a lawsuit from Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. DHS now plans to declare the property excess and turn it over to the General Services Administration for eventual sale.