Hanover VA — Warehouse Owners Terminated Deal with ICE
Warehouse owners in Hanover County, Virginia terminated their deal with ICE. Along with shakopee-mn-rejected, kansas-city-mo-platform-ventures, and Chester NY, this represents the pattern of seller-side resistance — where community pressure makes the property owner unwilling to complete the sale.
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The proposal was to convert a privately owned Hanover warehouse into an ICE detention center. After days of public backlash and a packed Board of Supervisors meeting, the Hanover Board of Supervisors announced its opposition, and the building’s owner then withdrew plans to sell the warehouse to ICE, halting the proposal. Hanover became a focal point of broader Central Virginia anti-ICE organizing (student walkouts, No Kings protests) in 2026. It is one of several live VA facility-siting fights alongside the augusta-va-correctional-center-ice-sale prison-sale block and a similar proposal in Stafford County, and sits within ICE’s documented interest in 7 new Virginia detention sites (ACLU FOIA, 2026).