Work has started on a 72-hour staging center at a Louisiana airport to help illegal alien families and children get back to their home countries when they decide to self-deport, a local airport official reported July 6.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started renovating barracks at an old Air Force base in Alexandria—about 125 miles south of Shreveport—to prepare more than 500 beds for the project, according to England Airpark’s Executive Director Ralph Hennessy.
“These are people who have volunteered to self-deport,” Hennessy told The Epoch Times.
The England Airpark entered into a five-year agreement for services with the LaSalle Family Foundation, a private Louisiana-based corrections organization, to run the operation, Hennessy said….