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Feds Plan to Build Nation’s Biggest Migrant Detention Center in Texas
FORT BLISS, TEXAS, JUL 22 – The $232 million contract to build a 5,000-bed detention center at Fort Bliss supports rising migrant arrests, with nearly 57,000 people in immigration detention as of mid-2025.
- The Pentagon on Monday awarded Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics LLC a $232 million contract to build and operate the 5,000-bed tent camp at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas.
- Amid rising border arrests, nearly 57,000 people were in immigration detention, up from fewer than 40,000, ICE data shows, leading to detention system strains.
- According to the Pentagon, the contract is managed by the Army Field Directorate Office at Joint Base San Antonio, with Acquisition Logistics LLC serving the Navy, Air Force, and Marines for over a decade.
- Rights advocates warn that using tents in desert heat for detention has long raised safety concerns, citing unsafe conditions alleged by watchdog groups.
- By September 2027, the federal agency expects the facility to open under a contract that ends Sept. 30, 2027.
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The U.S. government is building an immense detention camp with a capacity for 5,000 people in West Texas, according to government contract announcements, which dramatically increases the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants in the midst of its growing mass deportation efforts. A Department of Defense contract announcement released on Monday said Acquisition Logistics, a Virginia-based company, had received $232 million in A…
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