Overview

• Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth certified Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey and Camp Atterbury in Indiana for temporary housing of immigration detainees under the administration’s deportation plan.
• He assured members of Congress that the presence of detainees would not disrupt training, operations, readiness or other military requirements at either facility.
• The move represents a new phase in President Trump’s goal of detaining one million undocumented immigrants per year and expands the nation’s available detention capacity by tens of thousands of beds.
• Representative Herb Conaway and Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim issued a joint statement condemning the use of military resources for domestic detention as inappropriate and potentially harmful to military preparedness.
• Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, the Defense Department’s only tri-service base, will join a network of sites that previously hosted refugees from Afghanistan, Kosovo and Haiti as it prepares to hold migrants.