Trump administration set to expand migrant family detention at Louisiana airport
Source: The Guardian
Sat 14 Mar 2026 07.30 EDT
Last modified on Sat 14 Mar 2026 09.39 EDT
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.
The proposed center, housed inside the Alexandria international airport complex, will confine family groups and children for between three and five days inside a converted military barracks before they are deported, according to the project’s lead contractors, who presented their plan to a sparsely attended airpark commission meeting in February.
Local airport officials confirmed to the Guardian that a series of lease agreements with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its contractors are close to being signed. It is expected the site could be operational within 60 to 90 days.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/trump-migrant-detention-louisiana
= new reply since forum marked as read
