by: Ted Daniel Updated: Jan 8, 2016 - 3:37 AM

CONCORD, Mass. —

A checkpoint on Barksdale Street was the closest our cameras were allowed to Hanscom Airforce Base Thursday night. The secure facility is located in Bedford, with portions extending into Concord and Lincoln.

Thousands of military, government and civilian employees live and work there. And soon the base may also be home to hundreds of Central and South American born children. 

Jessica Vaughan said, "You're basically talking about plopping down several hundred teenagers we don't know who they are or what their background is into the midst of this very secure military base."

Vaughan is the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies. She says the minors will likely not have contact with the people off-base, but she says on base, separation could be difficult. 

"There's not much distance between the barracks where they are probably thinking about putting them, the empty barracks, and the housing, the regular base housing that's there and the elementary school that's there," Vaughan said. 

Under US law, Vaughan says the Federal Government is required to care for any undocumented minor entering without a parent or guardian.

She says people now pay smugglers to take children across the border and present them to border patrol. 

Rachel Washa supports base housing, saying, "I think it would be wonderful, I'm very supportive because I'm a teacher and we study that in my class."

At a shopping plaza in Bedford just miles from the base. We found strong opinions on both sides. 

Bob Gillespie is against base housing, saying, "There parents come over here and the kids walk across the border and we support them the rest of there lives."