Trump’s push for mass deportations will lead the US to construct a 5,000-person immigration detention camp in Texas
The Trump administration has awarded a $232 million contract to construct a large detention facility for immigrants in El Paso, Texas.
As President Donald Trump increases major deportation efforts, the US government plans to construct a huge new immigration detention center in west Texas, greatly increasing its capacity to house undocumented people.
Acquisition Logistics, a Virginia-based company, was given a $232 million Army contract to build the facility in El Paso, the Department of Defense announced Monday. The location, which is referred to as a “soft-sided facility”—a term frequently used to describe tent encampments—will house 5,000 adult single immigrants.
The initiative comes shortly after Florida quickly constructed a new prison facility for immigrants known as “Alligator Alcatraz” on a remote Everglades swampland airstrip.
One of the biggest US Army facilities, Ft. Bliss, which spans portions of Texas and New Mexico, is close to the El Paso site.
President Trump just signed into law an astounding $170 billion budget for border security and immigration control, which coincides with the promise of a broad increase of immigration enforcement. ICE will receive $76.5 billion over the next five years, which is over 10 times its present yearly budget, and $45 billion of that will be allocated especially for detention infrastructure.
Despite a recent drop in illegal border crossings, Trump has repeatedly promised to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants.
The administration’s harsh stance is demonstrated by the development of such expansive facilities, which have alarmed immigrant rights activists who worry about human rights abuses and worsening circumstances in what they refer to as mass incarceration camps.
