Planned ICE Detention Center Could More Than Double The Population Of Tiny North Texas Town
A 1M SF warehouse designed for Amazon in a tiny Dallas County city is reportedly being turned into a detention facility for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
PointSouth Logistics & Commerce Centre's Building 1 at 950 N. I-45 in Hutchins was bought by ICE to be used as a detention facility for up to 9,500 people, D Magazine reported. The addition of that many detainees would more than double Hutchins' population, which has just under 8,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The facility is one of seven warehouses the immigration agency planned to renovate near major U.S. logistical hubs in Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia, Georgia and Missouri to hold more than 80,000 detainees, The Washington Post reported in December.
Some civic and spiritual leaders in Hutchins have already spoken out against the facility.
"The warehouses we have are for storage, not for holding people," Hutchins Mayor Mario Vasquez said to WFAA earlier this month. "It's something we don't need in our city and something we don't want."
At a press conference organized by the Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response on Friday in Dallas, a former Hutchins city manager said the city doesn’t have the infrastructure to support ICE’s plans for the facility. Carl Sherman, who is now the senior pastor at the Church of Christ in Hutchins, said the city’s water supply or sewage infrastructure will not be able to accommodate more people than currently live in the town.
Officials in Missouri, Oklahoma and other states have also spoken out and taken action against possible ICE facilities.
ICE officials did not immediately respond to Bisnow’s request for comment on the facility.
During the 2025 Border Security Expo in Phoenix last April, Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, said the agency needed to operate more like a business and compared the deportation process to Amazon Prime, “but with human beings.”
The Hutchins warehouse was originally designed to serve as an Amazon warehouse, D Magazine reported. It was built in 2022 at a cost of $42M, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
The most recent filing for the property shows the facility underwent a $500K renovation over the last four months of 2025.
The PointSouth warehouse is located next to the Hutchins State Jail.
It was reported in August that publicly traded private prison operators CoreCivic and The Geo Group were in the running for $1B in new detention center contracts for the more than 100 new facilities ICE planned to open last year.
