Migrant children as young as six were detained at the Homestead facility adjacent to Homestead Air Reserve Base, a Superfund site with roughly 16 pollution sources including arsenic and lead, according to over 20,000 pages of records released in federal litigation. The records link the contamination to risks of cancer, kidney and liver damage, immune-system harm and developmental delays, and show no documented environmental assessment, cleanup or hurricane plan at the site. The facility, which closed in 2019, also exposed children to constant noise from F-16C fighter jets, with some detainees separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Earthjustice sued the Air Force, DHS and ICE in 2021 to obtain the records, and the federal government has agreed to pay legal fees now that the litigation has concluded; officials declined to comment.