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June 26, 2018

Mattis: U.S. Preparing to Imprison Immigrant Children on Two Texas Military Bases
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced the U.S. is preparing to
imprison immigrants, including children, on two military bases in Texas.

Defense Secretary James Mattis: "That is confirmed now that those will
be the two bases: Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss. But the-I
cannot confirm the specifics on how they'll be used. We'll provide
whatever support the Department of Homeland Security needs in order to
house the people that they have under their custody. So, we will work
that out week by week. The numbers obviously are dynamic, so we'll have
to stay flexible in our logistics support for Department of Homeland
Security."