The federal government has awarded a $1.26 billion contract to build and operate an immigrant detention center tent facility at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base in Texas.
According to a U.S. Department of Defense contract notice, the work will turn the base, located in El Paso, into a deportation hub that will include 5,000 beds, reports Bloomberg News on Tuesday.
The base features more than 1 million acres of land and has an airport, and once completed, the detention center would be the largest in the United States.
The contract for Fort Bliss has been awarded to Acquisition Logistics Company, based in Virginia. The project is being funded through a program directing federal dollars to small businesses, sources familiar with the plan told Bloomberg, while asking for anonymity to discuss a situation that had not yet been shared in public.
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