The Trump administration prepares plans to stop thousands of undocumented immigrants in military places in the United States, New York Times announcedAn effort that could ultimately touch South Jersey and the extensive McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst database.
The newspaper said that the administration plan for the deportation of millions of people includes a military base element, in Fort Blush a detention center was developed near El Paso in Texas, to ultimately accommodate up to 10,000 people.
This hubs would be a model for campsites in several states, including installations spreads through Burlington and Ocean Flames. Here’s how you can influence immigration and a local base.
Why should the Trump administration limit undocumented immigrants in military bases?
In brief, he needs beds. And space.
The effort of the deportation of millions of people – About 13.7 million undocumented migrants live in the USA – It will require federal mobilization of people, objects and dollars. The enhance in arrests under the Trump administration is already a crowd According to internal government statistics obtained by CBS News.
Immigration and customs enforcement is currently narrow by about 42,000 people in the network of 190 detention places throughout the country, including one in Elizabeth, NJ Pennsylvania is a home for the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Clearfield, along with the correction object of Clinton and Pike Correctional Facility.
Last week, the need for administration became even more evident, because ICE began to keep immigrants at the Federal Detective Center in Philadelphia. In the prison, the Center City is one of the two federal facilities in the North -Eastern United States for this use and will keep up to 125 detainees waiting for court hearings or to go to other countries.
The Trump administration also maintained immigrants at the American Navy base in the Ganantanamo bay in Cuba, and even before the inauguration, the Biden administration studied ways to add 600 beds in New Jersey.
What exactly is the common base of McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst? Is this an aged fort Dix?
The joint McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst base is the only base of the defense department, “an important center of global range”, as described, responsible for ensuring the support of mission, aircraft, refueling and air force.
It was created from a combination of three installations in 2009: McGuire Air Force Base, once known as Rudd Field; Fort Dix of the Army; I Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, perhaps best known as Place of Hindenburg disaster in 1937.
The base is 18 miles southeast of Trenton. And it is huge, covering 42,000 acres and covers 20 miles from east to west, host of over 40,000 members of the energetic service, civilians and family members.
He asked about the possibility of keeping immigrants in the base, Captain Kitsana Dunglomchan sent E -Mila: “We don’t have any information.” A spokesperson this week Questions to ICE, which did not answer immediately.
Can basic support thousands of undocumented immigrants?
Special needs, conditions and regulations under which immigrants may be maintained.
But in the past, the base served immense, up-to-date populations – none of which were involuntarily forced to the military base to wait for the deportation.
In 2021, among the cluttered evacuation of Kabul, when Afghanistan fell on the Taliban, the base was one of eight American military installations, which served as “safe noses” for evacuated war allies and their families. The camp known as “Liberty Village” was essentially a compact town in a military base, home for 3377 families, three times larger than Cape May, NJ
To accommodate Afghan allies, some of the existing brick bases of the base were supplemented with so -called tents, although these structures were hardened and more resistant than canvas.
Ten years earlier in 2010, the base served as a assist center Evacuates who arrived after the destructive earthquake in Haiti. In 1999, the then DIX provided a fleeting shelter Hundreds of refugees in Kosovo among the war in Kosovo. And during the Cold War, in 1955–1957, Hungarian refugees fleeing from Soviet repression lived in Fort Dix.
Is having detained immigrants in American military bases?
Yes. . The Department of Defense may provide military bases According to the National Center for Immigration, which works for every federal, state or local law enforcement officials for law enforcement agencies, which works for the development of low -income immigrants.
In 2014, among Migrants from Central America, President Barack Obama settled thousands of children who escaped from El Salvador, Guatemala and Hondurans in military bases in Texas, Oklahomie and California.
What do selected leaders of the region think?
Congressman coat of arms conaway, Air Force veteran, whose third district includes McGuire-Dix-LakehurstCalled by any use of Trump’s administration by the base in which he once served “gross”.
“We are not in the war – there is no justification for the use of war resources or facilities for his inhuman mass deportation plan,” said Democrat in a statement issued on Tuesday. “This decision is wrong and bad.”
Senator New Jersey Andy Kim, a democrat who was Earlier, a representative in the third districtHe did not answer immediately at the request for comment, and the US representative Christopher Smith, a Republican, whose fourth district covers part of the base, could not be achieved immediately.
