Immigration and Customs Enforcement will open a large-scale detention facility at Fort Bliss in Texas on Aug. 17, part of President Donald Trump’s push to carry out what officials call the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, The Hill reported.

ICE is preparing to begin operations at a new detention facility on the Fort Bliss military base near El Paso, Texas, later this month. The site will initially house 1,000 individuals who entered the United States illegally, with plans to expand to 5,000 beds over the next two years, according to the Department of Defense.

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson described the project as historic in scale. “Upon completion, this will be the largest federal detention center in history for this critical mission — the deportation of illegal aliens,” Wilson said Thursday.

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