Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, August 25th, 2025. This is USA Today's the Excer.

Today how an Army base used for World War II Japanese internment will be the nation's largest

ICE detention center. Plus, new polling concerns for Trump and a crackdown on commercial truckers who can't speak English.

Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigration detention site.

I spoke with USA Today, National Immigration Reporter Lauren, to learn more about

Fort Bliss. Lauren, thanks for joining me on this. Thanks, Taylor. So just starting here, I mean,

would you tell our listeners a bit about the immigration detention site the Trump administration has

created at Fort Bliss? And how is it part of this broader effort to construct detention facilities like it?

The Trump administration is dramatically increasing capacity to detain immigrants around the country.

We've seen that in facilities like the quote unquote alligator alcatraz, like a facility

that is going to be brought online for immigration detention in Indiana and others

around the country.

However, the administration's largest facility that it has created is now at Fort Bliss in El Paso,

Texas.

It is a soft-sided sort of tent facility, like sprawling white tents in the desert, that has capacity to hold 5,000 people.

What does it cost and who's there right now, Lauren?

So the contract is worth more than a billion dollars. And while it is set up to hold up to 5,000

people, U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso and whose

district includes Fort Bliss, was there and said there were about 1,000 people there, all men, though

she believes that women will be held there soon as well.

And what is the history learned behind Fort Bliss as an internment camp in World War II?

So the descendants of Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants who were detained in internment during World War II have been raising red flags all week talking about how they hear real echoes of the past in the projects that are going on today.

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