The ACLU of New Hampshire filed a FOIA request to confirm reports from several news outlets that claim that the Berlin Federal Correctional Institution will hold immigration detainees.

The ACLU of New Hampshire is asking for information on possible plans to house hundreds of immigrants facing deportation at the federal prison in Berlin.

Immigrants facing civil - not criminal - charges would be sent to a medium-security federal prison... isolated from their family, advocates, and potential legal services,” the ACLU of New Hampshire said in a statement.

Philadelphia’s Federal Detention Center is set to become one of two federal facilities in the Northeast United States that will confine ICE detainees amid President Donald Trump’s push for significantly more arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants.

The ACLU of New Hampshire is asking for information on possible plans to house hundreds of immigrants facing deportation at the federal prison in Berlin.