More than two dozen congressional Democrats, led by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar of El Paso, called on the Trump administration to shutter its troubled Camp East Montana immigrant detention center at Fort Bliss, according to a letter sent Thursday to Department of Homeland Security leaders.
In a span of six weeks starting in mid-December, three people died at the hastily constructed camp at El Paso’s U.S. Army base. One was ruled a homicide involving staff, which former Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said has not occurred in at least 15 years.
