The federal government plans to spend $1.26 billion to build the country’s largest immigration detention center at Fort Bliss, an army base in El Paso, according to a recently-announced contract.
The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday announced that Virginia-based company Acquisition Logistics LLC was given nearly $232 million up front to build and run the 5,000-bed tent camp. The federal agency said the facility is expected to open by September 2027.
The contract is one of the biggest for Acquisition Logistics, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the contract. But the company does not appear to have experience running detention centers.
Using tents in the sprawling West Texas to detain migrants has been a long-time concern for immigrant rights activists because of scorching desert heat.
How many illegal are there ? 1.2b for 5000 places ?
Don’t call people “illegals”. They are people, it’s dehumanizing.
Not half as many as the administration wants you to think, that’s why they’ve been snatching pretty much any immigrants they think they can get away with. The media messaging is trying to conflate immigration with undocumented immigration very deliberately.
I am one million percent sure you have done something illegal in your life.
I assume that makes you illegal. They will be sending the masked men to pick you up soon.
If I’m entering without permition on another one property I won’t be surprised if I get remove at some point.
“Permition”
“If I get remove”
You muppets really ARE just simple trash, aren’t you? Please, keep typing, though- it’s good for people to be aware of the level of intellect that accompanies the Nazi worldview