US EditionU.S. Government Is Building an Immigrant Detention Camp in West Texas
EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, JUL 24 – The contract funds a 5,000-person detention camp to expand immigration enforcement amid a $76.5 billion funding increase for ICE over five years, officials said.
- The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Monday that it awarded $232 million to Acquisition Logistics to build a 5,000-bed migrant detention camp at Fort Bliss, Texas.
- This contract follows President Trump's recent law allocating $170 billion for border enforcement, including $45 billion to expand detention amid rising immigration arrests and low bedspace.
- Acquisition Logistics, a Virginia-based firm founded in 2008, will build a 'soft sided facility' of tents for single immigrant adults, supported by subcontractor Disaster Management owned by Nathan Albers.
- Advocates question tent facilities, with Emma Winger stating they likely cannot meet federal standards for basic needs like shelter, medical care, and food safety, while reports cite poor ICE detention conditions nationwide.
- The new camp will greatly increase detention capacity and support the administration's intensified deportation plans, though concerns about oversight and facility quality persist amid contracted labor controversies.
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CEO of Migrant Camp Contractor Previously Profited Off Undocumented Labor
On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest migrant detention camp on the Fort Bliss military base, a facility that will play a key role in the Trump administration’s deportation plans. Unmentioned was that one of the subcontractors slated to work on the project, Disaster Management Group, is owned by Nathan Albers… Source
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News & RecordTexas migrant detention camp to be built
The U.S. government will build an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said this week, sharply increasing the Trump administration's ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
Cornyn called for Texas 'Alligator Alcatraz' within a day of news of El Paso immigration facility
AUSTIN (KXAN) -- U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) earlier this week called for Texas to create its own "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention facility. The day after, reports surfaced that the U.S. government was planning to build a 5,000-person immigration detention camp in El Paso. Cornyn chaired a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration hearing on Tuesday and delivered about 12 minutes of opening remarks, in whi…
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