The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has bought a vacant warehouse that federal immigration authorities had been quietly manoeuvring to acquire, settling in a single transaction a dispute that had drawn protesters, tribal resolutions, and an emergency city ordinance.
The tribe announced the purchase of the former Big Lots distribution centre at 2306 Enterprise Drive in Durant, a 1.24-million-square-foot facility that had been under informal consideration by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a potential detention site.
