A playground surrounded by cottages that will house immigrants at a new family immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. AP / Will Weissert

DILLEY, Texas - The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a former oil field workers' camp in rural South Texas that is being converted into the nation's largest family immigration detention center, as federal authorities brace for another possible influx of mothers and children pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited the 50-acre compound featuring 80 tan, two-bedroom, one-bathroom cottages connected by dirt roads and newly laid grass sod in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.

The first wave of about 30 immigrants will begin arriving in coming weeks and the cabins will eventually hold up to 480 people. Housing being constructed nearby will push capacity to 2,400 by around May.

Advocates say immigrant families are often fleeing drug or gang violence in Central America and should be released to relatives already in the U.S., rather than being locked up. The daily cost of family detention is about $296 per person, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nearly double the average cost of holding adults as estimated by the National Immigration Forum advocacy group.

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Women and children at Dilley will remain until they are deported, released on bond or begin immigration court proceedings that could allow them to stay in the United States. ICE says 70 percent of immigrant families released into the U.S. never showed up for follow-up appointments - part of the reason the agency is adding detention capacity.

Dilly's cottages include bunk beds and cribs that can sleep up to eight, a flat-screen TV and a kitchen - though cooking is prohibited to prevent fires. The cafeteria is open 12 hours daily and snacks can be had around the clock.

There's medical care and counselors, trailer classrooms, library and email access and a basketball court and playgrounds - all meant to showcase the softer side of immigration detention. Yet Johnson stressed that despite President Barack Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration, anyone who crossed illegally into the U.S. this year remains a priority for deportation.

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DILLEY, Texas (AP) The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a former oil field workers camp in rural South Texas thats being converted into the nations largest family immigration detention center, as federal authorities brace for the possibility that mothers and children may again come pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Homeland Security SecretaryJeh Johnson visited the 50-acre compound featuring 80 tan, two-bedroom, one-bathroom cottages connected by dirt roads and newly laid grass sod in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.

The first wave of about 30 immigrants will begin arriving in coming weeks and the cabins will eventually hold up to 480 people. Housing being constructed nearby will push capacity to 2,400 by around May.

Advocates say immigrant families are often fleeing drug or gang violence in Central America and should be released to relatives already in the U.S., rather than being locked up. The daily cost of family detention is about $296 per person, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nearly double the average cost of holding adults as estimated by the National Immigration Forum advocacy group.

Women and children at Dilley will remain until they are deported, released on bond or begin immigration court proceedings that could allow them to stay in the United States. ICE says 70 percent of immigrant families released into the U.S. never showed up for follow-up appointments part of the reason the agency is adding detention capacity.

Dillys cottages include bunk beds and cribs that can sleep up to eight, a flat-screen TV and a kitchen though cooking is prohibited to prevent fires. The cafeteria is open 12 hours daily and snacks can be had around the clock.

Theres medical care and counselors, trailer classrooms, library and email access and a basketball court and playgrounds all meant to showcase the softer side of immigration detention. Yet Johnson stressed that despite President Barack Obamas recently announced executive actions on immigration, anyone who crossed illegally into the U.S. this year remains a priority for deportation.

This must be clear: Our borders are not open to illegal migration, he said.

Dilley opens as officials are closing a temporary family immigration detention center that, at its height, held about 700 people on the grounds of a law enforcement training center in Artesia, New Mexico. It opened in June, at the height of a crush of families at the border, while Dilley begins during a lull.

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The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a former oil field workers' camp in rural South Texas that's being converted into the nation's largest family immigration detention center, as federal authorities brace for the possibility that mothers and children may again come pouring across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited the 50-acre compound featuring 80 tan, two-bedroom, one-bathroom cottages connected by dirt roads and newly laid grass sod in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.

The first wave of about 30 immigrants will begin arriving in coming weeks and the cabins will eventually hold up to 480 people. Housing being constructed nearby will push capacity to 2,400 by around May.

Advocates say immigrant families are often fleeing drug or gang violence in Central America and should be released to relatives already in the U.S., rather than being locked up. The daily cost of family detention is about $296 per person, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nearly double the average cost of holding adults as estimated by the National Immigration Forum advocacy group.

Women and children at Dilley will remain until they are deported, released on bond or begin immigration court proceedings that could allow them to stay in the United States. ICE says 70 percent of immigrant families released into the U.S. never showed up for follow-up appointments part of the reason the agency is adding detention capacity.

Dilly's cottages include bunk beds and cribs that can sleep up to eight, a flat-screen TV and a kitchen though cooking is prohibited to prevent fires. The cafeteria is open 12 hours daily and snacks can be had around the clock.

There's medical care and counselors, trailer classrooms, library and email access and a basketball court and playgrounds all meant to showcase the softer side of immigration detention. Yet Johnson stressed that despite President Barack Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration, anyone who crossed illegally into the U.S. this year remains a priority for deportation.

"This must be clear: Our borders are not open to illegal migration," he said.

Dilley opens as officials are closing a temporary family immigration detention center that, at its height, held about 700 people on the grounds of a law enforcement training center in Artesia, New Mexico. It opened in June, at the height of a crush of families at the border, while Dilley begins during a lull.

But Royce Bernstein Murray, director of policy for the National Immigrant Justice Center, said patterns are seasonal and advocates and federal officials alike expect crossings to increase again in the spring.

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The failure of the Faber Field bond referendum, and probability of major rehab work at the Coleman School softball field, will heighten the need for district/borough sports coordination in upcoming months, according to Glen Rock Board of Education (BOE) member Carlo Cella III.

At the Nov. 24 BOE meeting, Cella, board liaison to the municipal Recreation Advisory Board (RAB), said, "The Faber Field referendum defeat was a major topic at the Nov. 18 RAB meeting, and (scheduling) is something that we need to be involved with."

Cella added, "In case it isn't generally known, the high school and middle school send many varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams to play baseball, soccer and lacrosse at Faber Field, and everyone needs to be aware of that."

He added that "I also discussed our intention to modify the Coleman field, and that tentatively, we are thinking of closing it down starting at the end of the current school year, to be reopened for girls softball in March 2016.

"So we need to get closely-coordinated with the borough with respect to opening and closing fields - ours and theirs," Cella said.

The possible shutdown of lower Faber - near-term due to deteriorating conditions, and longer-range should the possible alternative of a natural grass renovation there require an initial "rest" period - has loomed larger since Glen Rock voters defeated the synthetic turf plan in November.

BOE alternatives for Coleman's also-declining fields have been deliberated for over a year - with $430,000 already budgeted in the current school year to re-sod the school's playing surfaces.

In light of all possibilities, Cella said district buildings and grounds supervisor Sandy Marinos and athletic director Frank Violante will jointly engage with borough recreation officials and others on a comprehensive field usage and utilization study.

That initiative will be an integral part of the charge to the new ad hoc committee established by Mayor John van Keuren, which will address alternative solutions at Faber Field or elsewhere, in the context of overall recreation facility needs. Referring to that group, Cella said, "We will be providing input to the committee, but we will not be part of it."

The BOE is currently vetting a tandem investment to add lights to the high school's synthetic turf football/all-purpose stadium, alongside the budgeted natural grass rehabilitation at Coleman.

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