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Watchdog finds waste and unsanitary conditions at ICE facility inside Fort Bliss

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A government watchdog found major problems with the Trump administration’s efforts to hold immigrant detainees inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, including millions of dollars in waste, unsanitary conditions and inadequate tuberculosis control measures, as well as a lost firearm. From August 2025 to March 2026, the facility, known as Camp East Montana, … Read more

Fort Bliss detention center to get new operator after scrutiny

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The Trump administration plans to tap a major engineering and electronic services company to run the country’s largest immigration detention center, where one detainee was killed and two others have died. The Department of Homeland Security intends to award the no-bid contract to run Camp East Montana and manage its detainees to Chantilly, Virginia-based Amentum … Read more