Private companies will build a 5,000-bed tent city to detain immigrants in Fort Bliss, Texas.
What we know now about DHS will turn into a bond hearing for detainees
Here’s what we know now about DHS turning into immigrant bond hearings for detained immigrants:
The US Army hired contractors to build the nation’s largest ice detention center. This is the latest move by President Donald Trump, which used the military to make the promised deportation of the U.S.
Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics LLC will build a temporary immigration detention center with a $232 million contract with 5,000 beds in Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, near the border.
Costs could rise. A similar tent city built during the Biden administration to house immigrant children who were not accompanied by the blissful bliss in 2021 had swelled to nearly $1 billion within months.
Acquired Logistics has been a civil contractor for the US Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps for more than a decade, according to federal procurement data.
The company’s website was “down for maintenance” on July 23rd, and USA Today was unable to contact the company’s representative online or via telephone.
Trump vowed to illegally expel millions of immigrants across the country, and Congress recently allocated $170 billion in new money to help him do so.
The country’s system of immigration detention centres is strained as undocumented arrests have risen in recent months.
The White House promoted its arrest records in a July 22nd statement. “Nationwide, the arrests of illegal criminal immigrants have skyrocketed to do something good with President Donald J. Trump’s promise to remove the threat to public safety from these threats.”
Latest ICE data shows that nearly 57,000 people in immigrant detention have risen from less than 40,000 at the end of the Biden administration.
