Where have all the ‘illegal’ migrants to the US gone?

Michael Tangeman
10 April 2025, The Tablet

Barbed wire runs along the US side of a section of the Rio Grande forming part of the international border

Michael Tangeman

Tablet features – deportation disconnect – where have all the migrants gone?

Across that border, in El Paso, Texas, the construction of a 10,000-bed immigration detention centre at the massive 1,700 square-mile Fort Bliss army base is about to begin, announced during a 26 March visit to the base by Trump’s newly appointed secretary of the army, Daniel Driscoll.

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