The Trump administration wants four 10,000-bed detention centers to hold illegals as they are processed for deportation to their home countries.
The planned new facilities will more than double the current capacity among U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 14 current sites.
Plans revealed in Customs and Border Protection selection document review by washington post.
The cost of this expansion could be billions of dollars not currently in the CBP budget. The necessary funds must be provided by an act of Congress.
The document said the Pentagon may be asked to provide space on U.S. military bases to temporarily house detainees awaiting deportation.
Leftists and Democrats are already trying to spin the facility as inhumane before it is even built. For example, a leftist on a liberal bubble social media site is Blusky. crying Regarding calling plans and facilities “concentration camps” even though temporary holding facilities do not have the characteristics of such things.
The president has started asking the military for help. He signed an executive order on Monday directing the Department of Defense to provide 1,500 active service troops to serve at the U.S. border.
“As Chief Executive Officer and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces, there is no solemn responsibility than to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States along our borders,” President Trump ordered. I wrote. “The United States military has a long and well-established role in securing our borders against threats of invasion.”
“A national emergency currently exists along the southern border of the United States. Mass illegal immigration and unparalleled flows across our border continue to jeopardize the safety and security of the American people,” the statement read. It continues to encourage further lawlessness,” the president continued. “Through this order, I am acting in accordance with my solemn duty to protect and defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the United States along our borders.”
Further involvement of the US military in Trump's deportation plans was revealed on Thursday, when the Pentagon announced that the Department of Homeland Security would provide air support to move detainees into the country when deportations occur. Ta.
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