DOGE recently observed that the government owns 7,967 vacant buildings, for which the government still nevertheless pays to heat/air-condition despite their being vacant.
These buildings should be put to immediate use as migrant detention centers, from which migrants can be easily processed for deportation.
Additionally, using these massive empty tombs to house aliens will relieve a lot of the stress and burdens of illegal aliens on the numerous small cities and towns across America that do not have the resources to take care of their citizens while siphoning away a substantial portion of their budgets and resources to take care of illegal aliens and their children.
That’s a very good idea. I hope they’ll use it, for the illegals and then for the homeless vets, as Aaron suggested.
We need the government to start using more common sense, discretion, and the ability to make exceptions in special circumstances and this is a good example of what I mean: These vacant structures are sitting there going to waste while people are living outside in the elements. But I can already hear the officials saying it can’t be done because the buildings are not plumbed for residential use. “It won’t be up to code” and “plumbing the buildings would cost too much”… as if living huddled under a bush is better than living in an old office building, using the porta potty outside and shuffling down the street to where they’ve set up a center so people can get a shower and a meal. It totally CAN be done, if they’ll let it be done. I hope they do.
Title: Repurposing Federal Vacant Buildings: A Ten-Point Proposal for Immigration Processing and Relief
Introduction: Turning Waste into Solutions
The United States federal government owns nearly 8,000 vacant buildings, which currently incur costs for maintenance without serving any functional purpose. This proposal outlines a practical, humane, and resource-efficient strategy to repurpose these unused buildings as processing centers for undocumented immigrants, alleviating pressure on local communities and optimizing federal resources.
Points One to Four – The Ascent: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities
Addressing Resource Waste:
These vacant buildings represent a significant drain on federal funds, with ongoing heating, cooling, and maintenance expenses. Repurposing them eliminates waste while creating functional value.
Relieving Pressure on Local Communities:
Small towns and cities often struggle to accommodate the influx of undocumented immigrants, straining local budgets and services. Centralized federal processing centers can redistribute these responsibilities more equitably.
Streamlining Immigration Processing:
By consolidating resources in centralized locations, these buildings can serve as efficient hubs for processing migrants, expediting their cases for deportation or legal resolution.
Ensuring Humane Conditions:
While not originally designed for residential use, these buildings can be outfitted to provide basic necessities, ensuring humane treatment for migrants, including shelter, sanitation, and access to food.
Point Five – The Summit: Maximizing Federal Resources
Optimizing Federal Assets for Public Benefit:
This initiative transforms dormant federal properties into active assets, reducing taxpayer costs and turning inefficiency into a model of resourcefulness. These centers can provide both immediate and long-term benefits for immigration policy and community welfare.
Points Six to Ten – The Descent: Practical Applications and Broader Impacts
Temporary Modifications for Utility:
Basic retrofitting, such as installing modular sanitation units or setting up portable facilities, can make these buildings functional without incurring excessive costs, bypassing concerns about full residential compliance.
Mitigating Local Economic Impacts:
Redirecting migrants to centralized locations reduces the fiscal burden on smaller municipalities, allowing them to focus on their own citizens and local priorities.
Long-Term Versatility of Retrofits:
Once migrant processing needs are resolved, these buildings can be repurposed again for other urgent uses, such as temporary housing for homeless veterans or disaster response centers.
Federal-Local Collaboration:
Coordinating with local governments and community organizations ensures the smooth operation of these facilities while addressing specific regional needs.
Demonstrating Efficient Governance:
This plan reflects a commitment to pragmatic, resourceful governance, setting a precedent for addressing other federal inefficiencies while responding to social challenges with innovation and compassion.
Conclusion: Bridging Federal Inefficiency with National Needs
Repurposing vacant federal buildings into immigration processing centers addresses multiple challenges simultaneously: it reduces federal waste, provides humane solutions for undocumented migrants, and relieves pressure on local communities. This initiative represents a scalable, cost-effective, and socially responsible approach to immigration policy.
“The Tree of Relief”-Final Thought : A Shelter for Progress
Much like a tree repurposes sunlight and nutrients into growth, these vacant buildings can be transformed into shelters of utility and compassion. By bridging inefficiencies with real-world needs, this proposal exemplifies how creative resource management can offer relief and progress for communities and individuals alike.
Additional proposal that might be added to this proposal. Another proposal was posted suggesting that all Federal government office materials, vehicles, and related properties might be removed from Federal buildings and placed in auction, recycling those supplies for new business startups while using the funds for rebuilding our aging and vulnerable energy infrastructure. Below is that proposal. Perhaps it can also be incorporated here, so that when the building space is cleared out and repurposed, the inside properties (including any renovation left-overs, could be auctioned to support our much-needed infrastructure build-out. Link below:
I agree about repurposing vacant building, but for housing illegals, it needs to be away from populated areas and away from law-abiding citizens. I would add consideration should be made to include repurposing FEMA camps for that very evolution. That seems more appropriate at this juncture. Detainee camps like the ones we had in Iraq and Afghanistan, where illegals are separated by their country of origin, processed in for their crimes, recording their biometric data for NCIC/LEADS library, and kept (based on US crimes committed) or released (to their country of origin) depending on the threat level they pose to the American people, law enforcement, and US military. The military could run this operation, and they got the ample experience in the bullpen. Regularly recurring detainee review boards every six months should be had on these individuals as they are basically a foreign army invading upon our shores. Consideration should be given to time served against the crimes they committed. Also, treat murderers among them as insurgents, and considerations for the death penalty should not be hindered. The government could even implement a prisoner work release program for the great “MAGA” reconstruction of our own country (of course the release of them in the end will be back to their country of record when their time is served). Folks should consider the idea that condoning illegal immigration, as well as the associated supply and logistics operation involved is a form of human trafficking. It’s also like sanctioning and financing a global logistics operation to bring in foreign fighters to come in and undermine the nation state. This foreign army in my view is an act of war, so treat it as such. Mexico should also be held accountable for enabling this very evolution. We as a nation state cannot condone the foreign interests of the UN, WEF, & WHO seeking to subvert the borders and actions of a nation state through artificial crisis, therefore we cannot live with the “refuse” they brought upon our doorstep. Also, FEMA seems to be an utter waste of taxpayer dollars anyway, so dissolving it and repurposing its assets and real-estate seems to be most appropriate.
It would also be a step towards eliminating rampant government waste. People need to remember our government does not generate income (unless you are an elected official making the most of collusion, corruption and influence pedaling but that’s another story) but operates on our tax dollars collected. We need to cull the herd of immigrants here illegally and put our bloated bureaucracy on a strict diet!
I didn’t see Residential style bathrooms along their route across our border so I dont see where that code should matter in this case either… that is exactly what I would say to thise officials who want to nitpick too.
Shouldn’t we house the veterans first, then the people that do not hold allegiance to the United States?
The migrants seeking asylum should be on one base or a few bases close to the border. It is what other countries do for refugees and asylum seekers. They should be required to stay there until the person or family has gone through the asylum process. Hopefully, while there the migrants learn to speak, read, and write English and are assessed where the person’s talents lie, so the person or family gets sent to any area needing the head of household’s skills. If the asylum seekers do not like the process, they have the option to be sent to Mexico/Canada (whichever country they were in last) or sent to home country.