Trump administration set to expand migrant family detention at Louisiana airport

Alexandria airport center would hold migrant families and children inside converted barracks before deportationThe Trump administration is poised to expand immigration detention operations at a inside a rural Louisiana airport, the Guardian has learned.The administration is seeking to establish a “first of its kind” short-term facility that would hold migrant families and unaccompanied children next to a runway that has become a central node for the White House’s mass deportation agenda.