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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site

people stand between airplanes
Detainees are transported at England Airpark in Alexandria, Louisiana. The airfield has become a major hub for deportations from the US. Photograph: Kathleen Flynn/The Guardian

Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a detention facility for children and their families on one the nation’s most Pfas-contaminated sites, which also serves as a hub for the president’s deportation program.

The England air force base, now called England Airpark, is a sprawling former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwater have been found at at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt).

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