The Defense Department has begun construction on what defense officials claim will be the largest detention center for detained migrants in the United States, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson announced at a press briefing Thursday.

The facility will be located at Fort Bliss, Texas, and is expected to have the capacity to hold 1,000 people by the end of August. This capacity will be grown to 5,000, Wilson said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has already approved access to the base and use of the site by the Department of Homeland Security, Wilson told reporters .

“Upon completion, this will be the largest federal detention center in history for this critical mission — the deportation of illegal aliens,” Wilson said.

The site will function as a processing center where immigrant

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