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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Laughland in New Orleans

Trump officials set to expand migrant family detention at Louisiana airport

An un-used, three-story barracks building in the backdrop of a parking lot and grass
The barracks building earmarked for conversation as a new facility to hold migrant families and unaccompanied minors next to Alexandria international airport. Photograph: England Airpark

The Trump administration is poised to expand immigration detention operations at a controversial site inside a rural Louisiana airport, the Guardian has learned.

The administration is seeking to establish a “first of its kind” short-term facility that would hold migrant families and unaccompanied children next to a runway that has become a central node for the White House’s mass deportation agenda.

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