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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Jeff Ernsthausen, Mica Rosenberg and Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica

Meet the tent company making a fortune off Trump’s deportation plans

A large, soft-sided migrant processing facility, meant to process and house large numbers of migrants, is located on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.
Deployed Resources runs this tent facility that holds immigrants on the northeast outskirts of El Paso, Texas, as seen in 2023. The facility is being converted for use by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to support the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. (Credit: Paul Ratje)

Update, April 11, 2025: After this story was prepared for publication, Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted on a federal procurement website that it had awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion to Deployed Resources to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss. It is the largest contract the company has received and the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested in the U.S. on military bases in tents before they are deported.

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