ICE closing massive detention center Trump admin eyed as model after migrants die: report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

March 4, 2026 9:08PM ET


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears poised to shutter a troubled $1.2 billion tent detention facility near El Paso, Texas, that opened just eight months ago, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

An ICE memo circulating among staff this week indicated the agency is drafting a termination letter for the sprawling Camp East Montana, operated by Acquisition Logistics LLC. The facility, once touted as a model for rapid detention expansion, has become a cautionary tale of mismanagement and chaos.

"Once seen as the model for a new breed of makeshift tent encampments the Trump administration planned to rapidly build all over the country in its campaign to detain and deport millions of immigrants, Camp East Montana struggled to provide safe and humane housing for thousands of people," the report said.

Three detainees died there in two months, including a Cuban national whose January death was ruled a homicide. Witnesses claim guards choked Campos during a struggle, though Department of Homeland Security officials dispute the account.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/camp-east-montana/

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Link to WaPo REPORT - ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows

(msn/no paywall version) - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-taking-steps-to-close-detention-center-at-fort-bliss-document-shows/ar-AA1XxwuK


This is also the same concentration camp with the measles outbreak.

REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143626791

[Ocelot II]

1. "A cautionary tale of mismanagement and chaos" is a pretty good description of the whole Trump regime.

[Goonch]

2. ;-{)....

[IbogaProject]

9. $1.2 Billion tax money gone

No way that cost anywhere near that much, even a year's operating costs. At first glance I estimate 80-90% was outright stolen.

[riversedge]

3. ....ICE's own inspectors found at least 60 federal standard violations in September, citing failures in medical care, le

............ICE's own inspectors found at least 60 federal standard violations in September, citing failures in medical care, legal access, and safety procedures. Detainees housed in enormous football-field-sized tents alleged beatings by guards and denied medical treatment. A measles outbreak recently forced the facility to close to visitors and attorneys.

[thought crime]

4. It's okay because I'm sure someone got fired.

[riversedge]

5. Acquisition Logistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia. Almost nobody had hea

I had posted this article--or a similar one a few days ago


How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion Detention Deal
To hold 5,000 human beings.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/acquisition-logistics-ice-fort-bliss-detention-center-billion-dollar-contract/



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For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Read the whole package here.

When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city detention center in Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the Fort Bliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, Acquisition Logistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia. Almost nobody had heard of it. “A random house…just won $1.26 billion from ICE,” wrote the New Republic.

Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO Ken Wagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header “Site maintenance in progress.” Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?

[FakeNoose]

6. Good, so we know where the subpoena's need to be delivered

[cstanleytech]

7. Trump was probably unhappy with the lackluster results of how few died.

[coffeenap]

8. Place where they are taking pregnant teens to

ensure the products of their r-pes are preserved.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/pregnant-immigrant-children-texas-abortion

[Bayard]

10. Close all of them

This is the biggest boondoggle our country has ever seen. So many scam artists involved, with trump at the top. What a deal! He can say he's fulfilling his campaign promises to MAGAts, while funneling millions into his and co-conspirators' bank accounts.

Immigrants aren't people--they're the means to an end.