Thread: DOD planning tent city for 25,000 illegal aliens in ALA., 47,000 in CA.

Military making plans to provide shelter for thousands of illegal immigrants

By Lucas Tomlinson | Fox News


A Border Patrol intake of illegal border crossers in McAllen, Texas., this month. The Navy is preparing plans to house many immigrants at bases in three states. (U.S. Government Works)


Two U.S. defense officials have confirmed a report that the Navy is making plans to house potentially tens of thousands of migrants at bases in California, Alabama and Arizona, though an official request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is still pending.

Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said: "The Department of Defense is conducting prudent planning and is looking nationwide at DoD installations should DHS ask for assistance in housing adult illegal immigrants. At this time there has been no request from DHS for DoD support to house illegal migrants”

TIME magazine initially reported on plans for the "austere" facilities.

The Navy is preparing plans to construct sprawling detention centers for tens of thousands of immigrants on remote bases in California, Alabama and Arizona, escalating the military’s task in implementing President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy for people caught crossing the Southern border, according to a copy of a draft memo obtained by TIME.

"The Department of Defense is conducting prudent planning ..."
- Lt. Col. Jamie Davis, a Pentagon spokesman

The internal document, drafted for the Navy secretary’s approval, signals how the military is anticipating its role in Trump’s immigration crackdown. The planning document indicates a potential growing military responsibility in an administration caught flat-footed in having to house waves of migrants awaiting civilian criminal proceedings.

The Navy memo outlines plans to build “temporary and austere” tent cities to house 25,000 migrants at abandoned airfields just outside the Florida panhandle near Mobile, Ala.; at Navy Outlying Field Wolf in Orange Beach, Ala.; and nearby Navy Outlying Field Silverhill.

The memo also proposes a camp for as many as 47,000 people at former Naval Weapons Station Concord, near San Francisco; and another facility that could house as many as 47,000 people at Camp Pendleton, the Marines’ largest training facility, along the Southern California coast.

The planning memo proposes further study of housing an undetermined number of migrants at the Marine Corps Air Station near Yuma, Ariz.

The planning document estimates that the Navy would spend about $233 million to construct and operate a facility for 25,000 people for a six-month time period. The proposal suggests these tent cities be built to last between six months and one year.

Capt. Greg Hicks, the Navy’s chief spokesman, declined to provide details on the matter.

“It would be inappropriate to discuss internal deliberative planning documents,” he told TIME.

Although the military has not yet been ordered to construct these new detention facilities, it is clear it is bracing to join a policy challenge that is ricocheting throughout the whole of government. What began as a crackdown on immigrants crossing the border illegally has now spread to the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Defense and Health and Human Services.

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I'm all for these detention camps if it means an end to catch & release!

Originally Posted by MW

I'm all for these detention camps if it means an end to catch & release!

Me too!

It means "catch and keep" one million in tents, continue to give birth, can't keep up!

That is their plan!

NO...CATCH AND DEPORT 100% OF THEM

DEFUND AND TERMINATE ASYLUM! IT IS A FAILED PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN ABUSED!

They can set these up for CRIMINAL TRESPASSING ILLEGAL ALIENS but not our homeless, our Veteran's our Seniors and OUR children!

NO WAY! SHIP THEM OUT!

THIS IS MY IDEA TO HANDLE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM LIARS!!!

NOT ON OUR BASES! WE ARE NOT A REFUGEE CAMP FOR THE WORLD TO POUR OVER OUR BORDER

SEND THEM BACK INTO THE CARE AND CUSTODY OF THEIR PRESIDENT WITHIN 48 HOURS!

NO MORE ASYLUM APPLICATIONS WILL BE TAKEN! 700,000 BACKLOG IS ENOUGH!

NO TAXPAYER FUNDED LAWYERS TO NON-CITIZENS!

STOP FORCING U.S. TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR THIS!

WE DO NOT OWE THESE PEOPLE LAWYERS TO COUNSEL THEM TO LIE AND SUE US!

POVERTY AND VIOLENCE IN YOUR COUNTRY IS GROUNDS FOR DENIAL OF ALL ASYLUM CLAIMS!

A "BETTER LIFE" IS NOT YOUR MAGIC WORDS TO BE ACCEPTED INTO THE UNITED STATES!

THIS IS AN INVASION...BY FOUR COUNTRIES SOUTH OF OUR BORDER WHO ARE ASSISTING AND COMPLICIT IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING TO ANOTHER SOVERIGN NATION!