ICE detention center in Texas flagged for missing records, medical failures and wasteful spending
The report says rushed contracting and weak oversight led to $11.5 million in wasted costs, unsanitary conditions and a lost loaded firearm.
- On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office released a report finding "significant, pervasive issues" at Camp East Montana, a federal detention center in El Paso that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars through rushed contracts and poor oversight.
- Facing pressure to expand detention capacity, the Trump administration bypassed standard procedures and awarded the $1.3 billion contract to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a firm with no prior detention experience, to accelerate construction at Fort Bliss in August 2025.
- Investigations uncovered up to $11.5 million wasted on unused services and critical safety failures including missing evidence in the homicide death of Geraldo Lunas Campos and inadequate medical care for detainees with diabetes or HIV.
- The Department of Homeland Security replaced Acquisition Logistics with Amentum Services Inc in March 2026, though the facility had previously failed to meet basic detention standards including inadequate tuberculosis screenings and unsanitary conditions.
- Senator Dick Durbin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the findings "damning," noting the facility is part of a broader expansion where national immigration detention reached 57,000 as of early June.
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Loaded Weapon Disappears Inside US ICE Facility as Report Exposes Major Safety Lapses
A loaded firearm vanished inside the largest immigration detention centre in the United States and remained unrecovered for months, according to a new federal watchdog report that also detailed medical failures, missing evidence tied to a detainee's death, and serious oversight problems at the facility. The findings have intensified scrutiny of the Camp East Montana Detention Centre at Fort Bliss, Texas, where federal investigators say a series …
The Billings Gazette
Lincoln Journal StarReport: Detention center failing on many levels
WASHINGTON — A federal immigration detention center in Texas erected by the Trump administration failed to issue use-of-force reports, did not give medicine to seriously ill detainees and wasted tens of millions in taxpayer dollars through rushed contracts, according to…
The Times of Northwest Indiana
GAO: Detention center failing on many levels
WASHINGTON — A federal immigration detention center in Texas erected by the Trump administration failed to issue use-of-force reports, did not give medicine to seriously ill detainees and wasted tens of millions in taxpayer dollars through rushed contracts, according to…
WNTZ FOX 48
KTSMGovernment watchdog reports waste, detention missteps at Camp East Montana
A congressional watchdog has found that the decision to expedite construction and operations at the nation's largest immigration detention center resulted in millions of dollars in waste and a failure to meet key detention standards, but says those issues.
Texas ICE facility spent $11.5 million on guards, medical services, transportation and meals weeks before the camp even held detainees, GAO finds
Mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas created unsafe conditions that contributed to detainee deaths and suffering even as millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors, according to a federal report released Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office report documents serious problems at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso where three detainees have died in litt…
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