U.S. Government Is Building an Immigrant Detention Camp in West Texas

Texas 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…

U.S. awards contract to build 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in El Paso

The work would turn the Army base in El Paso, with more than 1 million acres and an airport, into a deportation hub with 5,000 beds, according to a U.S....

U.S. government is building an immigrant detention camp in West Texas

Procurement documents called it a “soft sided facility,” a phrase often used for tent camps.

US government is building a 5,000-person immigrant detention camp in El Paso

The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.