America’s Military Bases Are Not Deportation Centers
Veterans and concerned citizens across America oppose using domestic military bases for immigration detention.
Use the resources below to learn more about where proposed and possible military detention sites are being considered, and to hear directly from veterans about the threat this poses to the rule of law, due process, and human rights.
Click below to learn more about possible military detention sites in your state
California
Facilities Under Consideration: TBA
Comments from The Chamberlain Network Community:
“I fear that using military facilities to house migrants in substandard living conditions, and making service members perform duties to guard these locations – something that is outside their normal military roles, will have a ... devastating effect on our servicemembers.”
“[Military] installations are meant to project strength, strategy, and security—not to serve as makeshift prisons for people caught in the immigration system. The message this sends to the world is one of disorganization and misplaced priorities.”
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Colorado
Facilities Under Consideration:
Buckley Space Force Base - Aurora
Comments from The Chamberlain Network Community:
“American servicemembers are not supposed to enforce mass detention — they’re supposed to stand for liberty. We’ve seen what happens in places where that line disappears. It starts with “temporary measures.” It ends in regret.”
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Florida
Facilities Under Consideration:
Homestead Air Reserve Base - Homestead (Miami-Dade County)
Comments from The Chamberlain Network Community:
“The military exists to protect this country—not to serve as an arm of an extremist anti-immigrant agenda. Using bases like Homestead to detain immigrants, many of whom are fleeing violence and persecution, opens the door to a dangerous precedent. What’s next? Military involvement in domestic law enforcement? Armed troops rounding up families in American cities?”
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New Jersey
Facilities Under Consideration:
News and Updates:
February 23: New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was not aware of the plans to use Joint Base McGuire - Dix - Lakehurst for immigration detention until reading the NYT report
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New Mexico
Facilities Under Consideration:
News and Updates
March 17: Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury said there’s no situation in which the use of Kirtland Air Force Base is appropriate for immigration purposes — she and the rest of the New Mexico D.C. delegation say they want answers but aren’t getting any
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New York
Facilities Under Consideration:
Comments from The Chamberlain Network Community:
“This isn’t a short-term response to a crisis. It’s a sweeping, systemic retooling of our military’s infrastructure and personnel to serve a domestic political agenda. That is not what the U.S. military is for. And once that precedent is set, it will be incredibly hard to roll back.”
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Texas
Facilites In Use:
News and Updates:
March 26: U.S. Secretary of the Army visited and confirmed “an ‘immigration facility’ at Fort Bliss has been greenlighted and the process of getting it built would begin any day
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Utah
Facilities Under Consideration:
News and Updates:
February 24: Hill AFB leadership, Utah Governor Spencer Cox “have not received a request for information or any directions at this point.”
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Hear more from veterans who oppose domestic deployment of the military
“Our leaders, from President Washington on, warned against using the military for domestic actions.”
“Migrants come here for the same freedoms I served to defend. And many of them, like me, also chose to serve so that we could protect our new homeland.”