detention camp

The detention camp contract at Fort Bliss, which could eventually hold 5,000 people, was awarded to a consortium of firms led by a company on the military contracting list for over $1 billion.

They’re supposed to expedite the deportation of the tens of thousands of people currently in detention camps and go through millions of backlogged cases even though few of them have experience with immigration law.

I think of the cavalier way Republican lawmakers have denied claims about the detention camp’s conditions.

Bliss, the U.S. is constructing a new 5,000-bed immigrant detention camp.

They argue it’s less a temporary holding site and more a punitive, secretive detention camp where detainees face extreme heat, overcrowded conditions, limited legal access and virtually no transparency.