A group of protesters, including elected officials, gathered outside an empty warehouse in Newburgh, New York, on Tuesday amid concerns the facility could become a future Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

Among the speakers was Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY), who argued that the prospect of a large immigration detention facility evoked some of history’s darkest chapters and suggested Orange County had been unfairly singled out.

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