Sherrill Opposes Trump Plan to Use Fort Dix as ICE Detention Center

COLUMBUS – Campaigning this weekend in Burlington County, home to Fort Dix, U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-11) in response to a question from a resident expressed her on-the-ground opposition to the Trump Administration’s plan to use the Army base as a detention facility.

Last week, the Trump administration announced that it will use the U.S. Army installation – part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in South New Jersey – to hold potentially thousands of people while ICE attempts to deport them.

“I am really fighting hard against that,” said Sherrill, the Democratic nominee for governor, while interacting with residents at the Burlington County Fair. “I sit on the Armed Services Committee and I am a veteran, and we have seen that as they have done this at other bases in other states…