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Massive Deportation Center Being Built at Border

By    |   Monday, 31 March 2025 04:41 PM EDT

The Trump administration is constructing a massive deportation center along the U.S.-Mexico border that could hold up to 10,000 migrants, the Daily Mail reported.

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll confirmed on Wednesday that an "immigration facility" at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, had been approved but wouldn't discuss details.

"The process of preparing it and getting it ready to be built out will start to occur any day," Driscoll told the El Paso Times. "This is such an incredibly important mission. We believe [in keeping] the American people safe."

Donald Trump on the campaign trail promised to launch the "largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America." As president in March, he invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, using the sweeping powers of the 1798 law to target alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.

During Trump's first three weeks in office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested about 14,000 people, border czar Tom Homan said in February. That amounts to 667 per day, twice last year's average but on pace for a quarter-million arrests annually.

ICE had nearly 48,000 immigrants in custody as of March 23, agency data showed, well beyond its funded capacity of 41,500.

Solange Reyner

Solange Reyner is a writer and editor for Newsmax. She has more than 15 years in the journalism industry reporting and covering news, sports and politics.

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