As the federal government continues to spar over what to do with the flood of illegal immigrants coming into the country, hundreds of them are going to be housed at a Border Patrol training academy in Artesia, New Mexico, according to a Fox News report.

Up to 700 immigrants are expected to arrive at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia by the end of the week, reports CBS Houston. Some say it's a bit ironic to house the immigrants at a center purpose-built to prevent them from coming to the U.S.

"Housing illegal aliens who have taken advantage of lax immigration enforcement on the same base where Border Patrol candidates are being trained to enforce our laws is a mixed message," Bob Dane, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Fox News.

New Mexico lawmakers reacted in kind, claiming that they weren't informed of the housing plan until last week, according to the CBS report.

"It raises a lot of suspicion and creates a lot of distrust, as far as the community goes," state Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell told KOAT-TV. "Each one of these rooms will have eight bunk beds. There will be televisions and play things for kids."

The recent flood of illegal immigrants is mostly coming from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, as people try to escape violence and poor living conditions, according to news reports.

Since October, U.S. Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 91,000 people crossing the Mexican border into the U.S., 52,000 of which are children, The Associated Press reported. Some U.S. officials have labeled it a humanitarian crisis.

Many of the immigrants have come under the impression they will be given leniency upon arrival to the United States. Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said that won't be the case, according to the CBS report.

"I want to continue to emphasize to all those who are listening, including the parents of kids, parents that may be considering sending their kid from Central America, that this journey is a dangerous one and at the end of it there is no free pass," Johnson said. "There is no 'permisos' for your children to come to the United States."