US EditionICE replaces contractor at largest detention camp after scrutiny of living conditions
ICE replaced Acquisition Logistics with Amentum Services after reports of overcrowding, medical neglect, and multiple deaths at Camp East Montana, the agency's largest detention center.
- An internal ICE document distributed this week shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to terminate its $1.2 billion contract for Camp East Montana.
- Earlier this year, health and safety problems at Camp East Montana emerged, with at least 14 measles cases detected, about 1,500 detainees remaining, and 60 federal detention standards violated.
- Built in weeks beside Fort Bliss, the camp features enormous white tents with open-top pods and contract language stating roughly two-week stays, while detainees and advocates alleged abuse.
- The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing the Camp East Montana contract with no decisions made, while Amentum Services Inc. won a separate contract for housing, medical care and transportation.
- The move comes as ICE deaths have risen, with at least 30 last year and nine this year, amid scrutiny over detention expansion and DHS's $1.2 billion warehouse plan.
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The Billings Gazette
ICE replaces contractor at Texas detention camp
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement terminated the contractor running its largest detention facility and replaced it with a more experienced firm that will work to improve medical care and other services, the agency said Friday.
Tulsa World
ICE replaces contractor at large detention camp
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement terminated the contractor running its largest detention facility and replaced it with a more experienced firm that will work to improve medical care and other services, the agency said Friday.
Amid scrutiny, ICE ousts contractor at Texas facility
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is terminating the contractor running its largest detention facility and replacing it with a more experienced firm that will work to improve medical care and other services, the agency said Friday.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) terminated the contract with the company that operates its largest detention center and will replace it with a more experienced firm that will work to improve medical care and other services, the agency reported on Friday. The change of contractor in Camp East Montana, in El Paso, Texas, takes place at a time when the place faces scrutiny for the living conditions that detainees have describ…
Associated Press News
ICE replaces contractor at largest detention camp after scrutiny of living conditions
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is terminating the contractor running its largest detention facility and putting in charge another firm tasked with improving medical care and other services.
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