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.
Cruelty and sex trafficking camp. They are spending billions of dollars to imprison taxpaying people who mostly just committed a misdemeanor of being in the country undocumented. They are not the efficient government they say they are, they just have vastly different priorities of what to spend taxpayer money on.
No services for taxpayers, cruelty for immigrants.
Misdemeanor for being in the country undocumented is a new concept. Before (if I remember correctly) Reagan, it was a civil matter.
It should have remained a civil matter