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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman and Associated Press

A company was awarded a $1.2B contract for a detention center to house migrants. The group behind it remain a mystery

A $1.2 billion contrract has been awarded to build a migrant detention facility in Texas, but little is known about the Virginia company that was awarded the deal.

The contract was awarded to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a Virginia-based company, last month to build and operate the 5,000-bed, short-term detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas as the resident Donald Trump seeks to conduct the “largest deportation operation” in the country's history. The Army is contributing $232 million to the project, which is expected to be completed by the end of September 2027, according to a Defense Department contract notice.

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