The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas , leading to condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and descendants of survivors of the WWII-era program.

Fort Bliss, a military base headquartered in El Paso, is slated to be the site of the largest federal detention center in the country. It currently holds around 1,000 detainees, but it is expected to eventually hold 5,000. Costing more than $1 billion in private contracts , it has also been used as a base for deportation flights .

The camp is reminiscent of “ Alligator Alcatraz ,” the Florida immigration detention facility that is slated to be shut down soon, per a judge’s order. Like Alligator Alcatraz, this makeshift tent facility forces detainees to endure

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