Some asylum seekers have been here more than seven years.
Problems with asylum seekers are just one part of the result.
Designed for asylum seekers whose cases are considered most likely to be decided quickly, the center can hold 350 people.
The decision means that after a waiting period of 12 months asylum seekers will be able to work.
They were then used to house younger single people and asylum seekers from other countries.
But people do not become asylum seekers simply because they live in a dangerous country.
In 1974, they moved to France as political asylum seekers.
This House does not want to improve the situation for asylum seekers.
One third of these are thought to be political refugees and asylum seekers.
The American government said the asylum seekers were economic refugees, at best.