60 Violations in 50 Days: Inside ICE’s Giant Tent Facility at Fort Bliss
ICE found at least 60 federal violations at Camp East Montana, including inadequate medical care and security staff shortages, amid rapid construction to double detention capacity.
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Detainees at Fort Bliss migrant center faced poor conditions, lack of medical care: Report
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Camp East Montana Detention Facility at Fort Bliss violated at least 60 federal standards, including failing to properly treat some of the detainees' medical conditions and not providing adequate food, according to a report by the Washington Post. The report says the first detainees arrived to an "active construction site" and were held at the unfinished facility where they were subjected to conditions that violated a…


60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Ft. Bliss
When the first immigrants arrived at their new detention quarters at a Texas military base this summer, they were marched onto an active construction site. Dust swirled and excavators hummed as contractors raced to build the tent encampment, where development had begun just two weeks earlier and would go on for months.
A report by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Control (ICE) revealed at least 60 violations of federal detention standards in just the first 50 days of operation of the largest U.S. immigration prison, located at the military base in Fort Bliss, Texas, according to The Washington Post. The entry into Texas military-based detention center violates federal standards: the report was first published in Digital Process.
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