Customs office bid roils Burlington

Source: Boston Globe

BURLINGTON - After dozens of residents denounced the federal government's plan to relocate its regional immigration headquarters here, the Board of Selectmen voted last night to call a special Town Meeting to consider ways to fight the move.

The Department of Homeland Security hopes to open by Jan. 1 a 40,000-square-foot headquarters for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Detention and Removal Operations, which processes people accused of violating immigration laws and identified for possible deportation. The project is nearly complete. The Immigration Enforcement agency needs to obtain a certificate of occupancy from the town.

After a forum with federal officials that drew about 150 people last night, selectmen responded to calls for action by voting unanimously to plan a special Town Meeting session. The selectmen will set the date of the session Monday. Officials did not know what the warrant would look like, but it could include a request for legal fees to fight the project, or for a detailed explanation of how it was allowed to proceed.

The Customs plan has been developing for more than a year, but many residents and local officials learned about it only recently, prompting outcry at meetings.

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I wouldn't let the bastards build anywhere near my town either. They'll be firing on your police and fire departments and NOT answering for it later.

Keep the Bastards OUT!!!

Let's create removal headquarters for all neo-fascist "military for hire" groups who don't follow the law, recognize the constitution, understand civil liberties, and think making money is more important than making lawful, moral, sound personal and professional decisions.

You could put that up near my neighborhood. I'd work there for free just to rid the country of the real peril to our nation, and it's not immigrants (legal or illegal.) It's this infestation of "terror leeches" who live by sucking the life's blood of liberty out of democracies by using scapegoates like immigrants and exaggerated or ineptly handled terror.