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Zorro

(17,730 posts) Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:40 AM Jul 24

Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US

Tent camp with 5,000 beds would be the largest such facility in the country, fueling fears of advocates who say they often don’t meet basic needs

The federal government has awarded a contract to build and operate a sprawling tent camp at Fort Bliss, an Army base in Texas, to serve as an immigrant detention center.

In the Trump administration’s latest move to vastly expand space for such detention, the work would turn the base in El Paso, with more than 1 million acres and an airport, into a deportation hub with 5,000 beds, according to a US Department of Defense contract notice. That would make it the largest immigration detention facility in the country.

The contract for Fort Bliss is worth $1.26 billion and was awarded to Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics Company through a special program that directs federal dollars to small businesses, according to two people familiar with the matter who asked to not be named discussing something that hasn’t been shared publicly. The Army is putting up $232 million for the work, the Defense Department notice says. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that the contract had been awarded but did not include its value or the winning bidder. Ken Wagner, president and chief executive officer of Acquisition Logistics, declined to comment.

The Fort Bliss contract is by far the biggest ever for Acquisition Logistics, which Wagner, a retired Naval flight officer, founded in 2008. It specializes in supply chain management and other technical services, particularly for the US military, according to Wagner’s LinkedIn profile. Acquisition Logistics has received contracts worth roughly $29 million from the Defense Department over the past five fiscal years, mainly for logistics support work, according to government records. Most of that was through set-asides for small businesses.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-22/trump-awards-immigration-detention-center-contract-for-fort-bliss-in-texas?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MzM2NDM0MCwiZXhwIjoxNzUzOTY5MTQwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWlQ0MVJHUFdDUUMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNjgyQTUwQzJCRDM0MTFCQTgwQjEwQjZEQjczQzM1MSJ9.vYXjZKb28WsQtD15jEjdt4GRm94LK1HZJeqUNEH28As

A $1.26B "tent camp" contract awarded to a "small business". Hmmm....

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Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US (Original Post) Zorro Jul 24 OP

No doubt the highest and only bidder... Hugin Jul 24 #1

The repubes spent a decade saying Dems would build detention centers BoRaGard Jul 24 #2

We Greg_In_SF Jul 24 #20

ALC is headquartered in Henrico County VA underpants Jul 24 #3

Ft Hellscape CNYHarris Jul 24 #4

People on DU and other places called this SHIT over a year ago..and here we are Bengus81 Jul 24 #5

Wonder if Halliburton bid on it? Eh...they probably made enough off the Iraq CON JOB Bengus81 Jul 24 #6

A quick back of the envelope calculation: $252,000 per bed. WTF?? flashman13 Jul 24 #7

Concertina wire is expensive. SergeStorms Jul 24 #17

Another Concentration Camp Owens Jul 24 #8

Did the House give him the money??? Owens Jul 24 #9

Was in that big gawd awful bill WestMichRad Jul 24 #16

In other news: Alligator prices rise around the world. Ping Tung Jul 24 #10

Please rename it the Melania " I don't really care" Memorial Concentration Camp newdeal2 Jul 24 #11

If they can rename the Kennedy Center after her Dixiegrrrl Jul 24 #13

$252,000 per bed. Turbineguy Jul 24 #12

Someone is getting very rich off this Diraven Jul 24 #15

I understand another 'detention camp' is planned . . . peggysue2 Jul 24 #14

NO!! BidenRocks Jul 24 #18

correction: CONCENTRATION CAMP B.See Jul 24 #19

I can't' believe that the US military willingly goes along with this. It's such a racist and ancianita Jul 24 #21

Kegsbreath's orders, no doubt. Ilsa Jul 24 #22

and when trumps dead and gone we can use it as a homeless shelter! samnsara Friday #23

Hugin

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1. No doubt the highest and only bidder...