About those 23 ICE detention centers the Trump administration is trying to secure in at least 17 states

Local communities, many of them caught completely off guard, are pushing back against federal concentration-camp-style facilities being located within their cities and towns.

The Trump administration is facing serious pushback against its plans to erect federal detention centers in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and several other states.

A total of 23 warehouse sites in at least 17 states have been targeted by ICE, either for purchase or lease, allegedly for the purpose of housing illegal aliens. But most of them are currently in industrial areas not zoned for residential use and not in any kind of shape for people to live in.

One proposed site in Salt Lake City, Utah, would purportedly have been the largest of its kind to date on U.S. soil, with the capacity to hold 7,500 detainees, but the deal has reportedly fallen through after citizens protested and local government balked, causing the owner of the facility to back out of the deal with ICE.

Then there’s the issue of whether these facilities are really meant to house strictly illegal aliens. Some critic…