The Trump administration has opened the sprawling “Lone Star Lockup,” the largest immigration enforcement detention site in the country. It opened with a 1,000-bed capacity, but will be expanding to 5,000 within about 18 months.
The Washington Examiner reported that the new detention site within the boundaries of the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss, just outside El Paso, brought praise from Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, and a heap of criticism from outspoken Texas Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar.
Rep. Escobar posted Monday on social media, “Today I spent over two hours conducting oversight at the new $1.2 billion migrant detention facility on Fort Bliss. The facts are simple: Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan is unbelievably costly and failing to target the ‘worst of the worst’.”
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