Texas' Fort Bliss Set to Host 5,000-Bed Immigrant Detention Camp
Military.com | By Steve Beynon , Thomas Novelly and Konstantin Toropin
Published July 23, 2025 at 5:10pm ET
The Trump administration has awarded a $1.26 billion contract to build and operate a virtually unprecedented 5,000-bed immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, Texas, a defense official confirmed to Military.com.
The contract was issued to Acquisition Logistics Company, a relatively small Virginia-based firm with seemingly no notable experience managing large-scale federal projects. According to government contracting records, the company's previous work has largely focused on just a handful of modest administrative support services with contracts all under $2 million, which is relatively tiny within the defense industry.
The massive Fort Bliss project reflects the Trump administration's effort to militarize its increasingly aggressive national immigration crackdown, which has entangled American citizens and sparked concerns from lawmakers and activists of human rights abuses. Troops have supported deportation raids and detention operations, and the Pentagon has established expansive national defense zones on the southern U.S. border and deployed thousands of troops
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