Governor Landry and federal officials announce Camp J at the Angola Prison has been renovated to house what they are calling the worst of the worst criminal illegal migrants arrested by ICE. Landry says this facility fulfils the President’s promise to make America safer.
“By giving ICE a facility to consolidate the most violent offenders into a single deportation and holding facility,” Landry said.
Camp J was built in 1976 and state prisoners lived in solitary confinement there. It closed in 2018 over concerns it was no longer a secure facility. Landry says it’s been renovated, and 51 migrants have already been located there, with more to come.
“The idea is to prevent those worst-of-the-worst criminal illegal aliens from continuing their criminal activities inside a criminal civil population. By congregating here, them here, we actually secure America,” Landry explained.
The One Big Beautiful Bill, as the Trump administration calls it, paid for the renovations to Camp J, which is now called Camp 57 in honor of Landry, Louisiana’s 57th governor. ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan says it’s a model facility.
“So this facility will meet all of ICE’s standards, including our standards to have attorneys available and we have hearing rooms to be able to meet with your attorney as well as see an immigration judge with the Department of Justice. We also have the law library,” Sheahan said.
Landry says they expect to house about 200 detainees by mid-September and over 400 at the ICE detention center when all of the repairs to the facility are complete.
