The Trump administration is planning to use military bases to house illegal immigrants as they go through the process of being deported.

Fort Bliss near the southern border in El Paso, Texas, would serve as a model as the administration seeks to develop more detention facilities on military sites across the country to make up for a shortfall of space at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, The New York Times reported Friday, citing three officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of a plan that is still in its early stages and has yet to be completed.

The Trump administration will expand upon a plan used by previous administrations that held some illegal immigrants at military bases, most recently unaccompanied children who were released into the country to the care of relatives or friends. The plan would help address a possible shortage of space for holding the millions of illegal immigrants the administration is seeking to deport.

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