Weekend recap: ICE warehouse iced, election deputy controversy, justices confirmed

When it became public, the Department of Homeland Security’s high-priced purchase of a massive Salt Lake City warehouse to transform into a large-scale immigration made a lot of noise.

But in the three months that followed, all was quiet. Now, reports say the agency, under new leadership, is looking to offload seven of its warehouses without ever using them. Salt Lake City’s facility is on the list.

In this weekend’s Dispatch we look at the apparent end of the controversial warehouse proposal and share our top stories of the week, including outcry over an “anti-universal suffrage” elections deputy and two new justices added to the expanded Utah Supreme Court.

“We’d be delighted. We think it’s the right decision. To have a mega-prison with 7,000 to 10,000 people in it is, on its face, inhumane and it would be a blight on our history.” — Attorney James McConkie, who is preparing an advocacy group’s lawsuit against the warehouse plan after hearing there are reports the feds are no longer pursuing the plan.