ICE considering new detention center in Florida City

By ALFONSO CHARDY



achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com


For now the area is just empty lots near the corner of Redland Road and Lucille Drive just south of Florida City in southernmost Miami-Dade County.

But that is where officials could one day build one of the country’s largest immigrant detention centers if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement decides that the site is the best for a facility that would house at least 1,800 foreign nationals facing deportation.

The project surprised neighbors in the area, home to a large a large number of immigrants. “I knew nothing about this,â€