The Trump administration is reviewing options to house immigrant children at military bases as it prepares to separate far more kids from their parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally.
Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services have made informal visits to four facilities in Texas and Arkansas, according to a U.S. defense official.
Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Tom Homan, deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced plans to step up criminal prosecutions of immigrant parents caught illegally crossing the border with their children, separating immigrant families.
The administration has been trying to stem a rising flow of illegal immigration a year after recording record lows of arrests at the border in the first few months after President Donald Trump took office. Officials have long considered separating parents and children caught at the border in part as a deterrent for other would-be border crossers.
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