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Gov. Mike Sherrill is letting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem know in no uncertain terms her displeasure in how the federal agency failed to properly notify Roxbury officials when purchasing the 470,000-square-foot warehouse there for use as an immigrant detention center.

Furthermore, the state "will not be complicit" in how the federal agency mistreats detainees or violates laws, she tells the DHS chief in her Friday, Feb. 27 letter to Noem.

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