The Trump administration is preparing to open a 528-bed holding facility near Alexandria, Louisiana, designed to accelerate deportations of migrant families and unaccompanied children. Located beside Alexandria International Airport — the country's largest hub for deportation flights — the site will be operated by the LaSalle Family Foundation, a nonprofit arm of private prison contractor LaSalle Corrections, and could be operational as early as August. Immigration advocates warn the facility, which bypasses the usual legal framework requiring unaccompanied minors to be placed in state-licensed shelters overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services, could result in children being held far longer than the stated 72-hour limit, and signals an unprecedented expansion of the US deportation system.