Woodbury is among the cities reportedly under consideration for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention or processing facility, according to reporting by the Washington Post.

The Post reported Wednesday that internal ICE draft solicitation documents outline a plan to create a nationwide network of detention sites aimed at accelerating deportations. The proposal includes 16 smaller processing facilities, each capable of holding up to 1,500 people for “maximum efficiency,” which would feed into larger detention hubs located in states such as Texas, Louisiana, Arizona and Virginia.

Woodbury city council members were unfamiliar with the proposal before reports were published, saying “The city has not received any application” nor have they “heard anything more than the rumor.”

“City staff has not been contacted by anyone regarding the acquisition and/or use of property in Woodbury by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” city officials said in a statement to WNN.

“Furthermore, following hearing the initial rumor, staff reached out to individuals connected to the existing warehouse building on Hudson Road (the rumored location) and those parties did not have knowledge of a pending or proposed lease or sale with U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement.”

According to the Post, the plans to develop said sites remain preliminary and subject to change.

The report continued, stating that the detention plan would rely heavily on renovated industrial warehouses and that ICE intends to share the draft solicitation with private detention contractors to gauge interest before issuing formal bids.

The Department of Homeland Security declined to confirm the details of the proposal to the Post, and no final locations or timelines have been announced.