Warehouse Owner Declines Sale to Feds

A million-square-foot warehouse off I-20 and I-45 in Hutchins will not be turned into an ICE detention center, according to a Monday statement from the California-based company that owns the property.

ICE reportedly intended to convert the warehouse into a 9,500-bed detention center for illegal immigrants awaiting deportation, causing alarm among some residents in the Dallas County town. The agency is planning four new detention centers in Texas and has already acquired sites in El Paso and San Antonio.

"God answered our prayers," said Mayor Mario Vasquez, who had told Majestic Realty Co. that turning the warehouse into a detention facility would "devastate" the community. "The public pressure, I think, ultimately led to this happening," said Kim Verriere of the Clergy League for Emergency Action and Response.

The federal government could still acquire the property through eminent domain, but has not confirmed plans for a detention center in Hutchins.

Paxton Targets EPIC City Again in Latest Suit

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed another lawsuit related to the planned Muslim-centric development previously known as EPIC City in North Texas, accusing its backers of actions "that appear designed to evade state oversight."

According to the lawsuit, Double R Municipal Utility District No. 2A of Hunt and Collin Counties was expanded to include more than 400 acres of the development during a September board meeting held at a remote location identified only by GPS coordinates.

Ahead of the vote to expand the district, all of the board members resigned and were immediately replaced.

The five new board members don't own land within the district and aren't registered to vote there, making them ineligible for appointment, according to the lawsuit. "I will not allow individuals to cheat the system to advance an illegal development," Paxton said in a statement.

UT Austin Pioneers New 3D Printing Tech

UT Austin researchers have developed a new method of 3D printing that can produce models of human body parts that could provide a cost-effective alternative to the use of cadavers by medical students.

The technique, dubbed CRAFT (Crystallinity Regulation in Additive Fabrication of Thermoplastics), uses light to regulate a plastic's hardness and transparency by varying the density of its molecular structure. The process was inspired by a "serendipitous discovery" by colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories.

"A lot of light makes it soft, and then just adding a little bit of light makes it hard," said Samuel Leguizamon, a scientist at Sandia who co-authored a paper explaining the method in last month's issue of Science.

Other potential applications of the technology include improvements to personal protective equipment and prosthetics tailored to specific activities.

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