Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning a detention facility for children and their families on one the nation’s most Pfas-contaminated sites, which also serves as a hub for the president’s deportation program. The England air force base, now called England Airpark, is a sprawling former military facility in Louisiana where Pfas levels in the groundwater have been found at least 41m parts per trillion (ppt). Federal drinking water limits for several Pfas compounds range from 4-10 ppt, meaning the levels have been at least 575,000 times higher than the limit. Military bases are often contaminated with high quantities of Pfas, but England’s groundwater has shown the highest levels ever recorded, and it is among the most Pfas-polluted sites in the US. England is also contaminated with other highly toxic chemicals, like TCE and a range of VOCs, while officials have raised concerns about asbestos in the barracks.…