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Federal immigration officials eye Utah for new detention center.

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Miss: This is the Place If Alligator Alcatraz or Guantanamo Bay aren’t adequately inhumane, perhaps Homeland Security could consider something nestled by the Great Salt Lake. CNN reported that Utah will soon be the site of a new immigrant detention center, although details are scant.

Finding new digs for the unwanted has long been an issue for lawmakers who first decided to relocate the state prison to a mosquito-infested area near the airport. That was done despite costly changes that include mosquito abatement.

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