PHOENIX — Federal officials have agreed to delay — but not give up on — their plans to convert a warehouse in Surprise to a detention facility for illegal migrants.
In a proposed federal court order, attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they will conduct an “environmental assessment” of the facility on West Sweetwater Avenue to determine whether it is suitable to house up to 1,500 people detained on immigration violations.
They will not begin remodeling the 418,400 square food industrial warehouse to make it suitable for a detention center until that study is completed.
