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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Trump administration wants $1.2 billion tent city at Texas Army base, country’s largest immigration detention center

Trump administration officials have awarded a $1.26 billion contract to build a sprawling tent camp to detain immigrants at an Army base in Texas.

The 5,000-bed facility at Fort Bliss, once complete, will be the largest immigration detention facility in the country.

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