The US Government is planning on building a 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, according to government contract announcements. The camp is set to increase the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants as part of his hardline immigration agenda and mass deportation efforts. Virginia-based firm Acquisitions Logistics had been granted $232 million in Army funds to build the detention center at Fort Bliss, an El Paso Army base. The federal government is reportedly planning on spending $1.26 billion to build the facility, which is set to become the largest immigration detention center in the US. "Work will be performed in El Paso, Texas, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2027," the Defense Department stated on its website. The announcement comes just weeks after the construction of the “Alligator Alcatraz†immigration detention center, located in the Florida Everglades. It also comes after President Donald Trump signed a law that sets aside $170 billion on border and immigration enforcement, including $45 billion for detention.
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