A New ICE Facility Could Speed up Deportations for Families and Kids
The 72-hour center would be run by LaSalle Corrections’ nonprofit arm and is intended to speed deportation flights, officials said.
- The Trump administration signed a contract to build a 528-bed, 72-hour migrant staging facility at England Airpark near Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana, with operations expected to begin as early as August.
- Officials designed the site to resolve logistical headaches from last year, when Guatemalan children were transferred at night to Harlingen, Texas, and held on airport tarmacs for hours before a federal judge intervened.
- The LaSalle Family Foundation, a nonprofit arm of LaSalle Corrections, will manage the facility. ICE instructed contractors not to refer to families as 'prisoners' or 'detainees' and to allow families to 'wear their own clothes.'
- Immigration advocates expressed oversight concerns, citing two detainee deaths since April at other LaSalle-run ICE facilities and June violations at Winn Correctional Center. Leecia Welch, chief legal counsel at the nonprofit Children's Rights, called it an unprecedented deportation expansion.
- Alexandria International Airport handled more than 4,400 immigration enforcement flights in 2025, establishing it as the nation's largest deportation hub. Airpark officials called the facility a 'humanitarian effort' for 'self-deporting' families, though advocates warn the expansion poses significant operational risks.
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Louisiana ICE Facility to Help Immigrant Families Self-Deport
Work has started on a 72-hour staging center at a Louisiana airport to help illegal alien families and children get back to their home countries when they decide to self-deport, a local airport official reported July 6. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started renovating barracks at an old Air Force base in Alexandria—about 125 miles south of Shreveport—to prepare more than 500 beds for the project, according to England Airpark’s E…
How Will The New ICE Facility Speed Up Family Deportations
The Trump administration has awarded a contract to build a 528-bed migrant staging facility near Alexandria International Airport in Louisiana to improve the efficiency of family deportations. According to the report, the center is expected to begin operations as early as August and will serve as a temporary 72-hour processing site before removal flights.💡The report said the project is intended to address logistical problems experienced during …
New facility will temporarily hold children, families before deportation
The Trump administration plans to open a temporary holding facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children on a former Air Force base in Louisiana. But officials say it’s not a detention center. The 528-bed facility, next to an airport hub in Alexandria, Louisiana, at what formerly was England Air Force Base, will hold unaccompanied children,...
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The Trump administration plans to open a temporary holding facility for migrant families and unaccompanied children on a former Air Force base in Louisiana. But officials say it’s not a detention center. The 528-bed facility, next to an airport hub in Alexandria, Louisiana, at what formerly was England Air Force Base, will hold unaccompanied children, families and adult women for up to 72 hours before they are deported. The facility is a departu…
ICE Building 528-Bed Deportation Hub Next to Louisiana Flight Line
The President Trump administration is moving to open a 528-bed holding facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the United States. The site sits next to Alexandria International Airport, which reports describe as a major hub for deportation flights. That location is the entire strategy. Put the last stop and the runway in the same place. Instead of scattering families and kids acros…
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