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Reps Visit Michigan ICE Facility After Detainee's Death

February 18, 2026

 

Across Michigan, Congresswoman Haley Stevens touring a detention facility a few months after an individual who was detained there died.  Back in December, a Bulgarian citizen whom federal authorities say was in the US illegally and detained in the processing center in Baldwin, died. Stevens says the facility currently holds around 1300 men and 100 women, with most cases ending in deportation.

 

"Why we're using taxpayer dollars in this way. It's an extraordinary expense, and I think the public is also quite outraged, as am I."

 

Last week, we learned the Department of Homeland Security is buying a facility in Romulus used as another detention facility. Stevens says it was a move that was made without coordination and transparency with local leaders and the surrounding community.