{"id":609719,"date":"2018-08-02T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=609719"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:41:37","slug":"the-trump-administration-plans-to-detain-more-immigrants-in-texas-heres-where-they-would-be-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/08\/the-trump-administration-plans-to-detain-more-immigrants-in-texas-heres-where-they-would-be-held\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump administration plans to detain more immigrants in Texas. Here’s where they would be held."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>

A scene from the tent city at a border crossing in Tornillo, Texas, 89 miles from Las Cruces, where immigrant children are being held.<\/p><\/div>\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is working to dramatically ramp up its capacity to detain immigrants \u2014 especially in Texas.<\/p>\n

Despite protests, several facilities have opened to hold more migrant adults and children this summer, and there are proposals that would nearly double the total number of beds at authorized centers. For family detention and child-only shelters, the capacity would nearly triple.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of the requested increase would hold children and families on two Texas military bases. The federal government has made initial requests for up to 15,500 beds at the Fort Bliss Army post in El Paso and Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, according to Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n