New Jersey Base to House Migrant Detainees, Pentagon Says (1)

The Trump administration will temporarily detain migrants at military bases in New Jersey and Indiana, according to a letter sent to Congress, deepening the Pentagon’s role in a historic expansion of immigration enforcement.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed off on a plan allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst — southeast of Trenton — to house migrants, according to a letter sent to Representative Herb Conaway, whose district includes the installation.

Housing people there and at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, “will not negatively affect military training, operations, readiness or other military requirements,” according to the letter from ...