The company eventually opened a 61,000-square-foot training facility in an industrial building near the U.S.–Mexico border, but it took a federal judge to declare that the training could begin, defeating attempts by local leaders to withhold permits and opposition from Congressman Bob Filner, who worried that the company was trying to get a foothold near the border, where it could then offer private migrant or drug interdiction services, much like what it was doing in Afghanistan.
