While We Watch Colbert and South Park, They Build A $1.2 B Desert Concentration Camp In Texas
While America’s distracted by the Steven Colbert Show drama and South Park revenge, Trump's government just dropped over a billion dollars to build the largest detention center in U.S. history
Welcome to Fort Bliss—A $1.2 Billion Dystopian Human Suffering Factory—Funded By You.
You read that right.
Everything is bigger in Texas. $1.26 billion taxpayers money funneled to private pockets. 5,000 prisoners. No due process. Tent concentration camp in a desert.
What’s Being Built—And Why It Should Terrify You
A $1.26 billion federal contract has been awarded to construct a 5,000-bed detention camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
It will be operated under military supervision with private contractors and no guaranteed legal oversight.
This is part of a broader Trump-era policy goal: scaling ICE detention to 100,000 beds nationwide—up from around 40,000.
This facility is slated to fast-track deportations under EO 14159, which targets up to 1 million removals per year.
Fort Bliss? It’s Another Alligator Auschwitz,
Of Texas Desert Kind
Let’s be clear: this isn’t just a holding site—it’s inhumane state-sanctioned cruelty.
Fort Bliss sits in El Paso’s desert, where summer temps regularly hit 100–110°F. Inside tents, that can spike above 120°F. No air conditioning. No proper plumbing. Just canvas and suffering. And in winter? Temperatures dip below freezing at night, with no insulation to protect detainees.
The result?
Heat exhaustion. Hypothermia. Dust storms. Insects. Infections. Psychological breakdowns.
Just like at Florida’s now-notorious “Alligator Alcatraz,” ambulances driving through the gate will be a daily feature. Already, reports from that prototype camp detail detainees suffering from medical neglect, contaminated food, and makeshift showers rigged with hoses. Some have called it “worse than jail”—and Fort Bliss will be five times bigger.
Here’s what we know—and why it’s enraging—that private contractors stand to profit from building this $1.2 billion tent detention camp at Fort Bliss:
Who’s Getting Rich from the Fort Bliss Camp?
Acquisition Logistics LLC (Prime Contractor)
Awarded the main Department of Defense contract—worth $1.2‑$1.26 billion—to construct and operate the 5,000‑bed tent camp for ICE detainees at Fort Bliss, supported by $232 million in Army funds so far.
Based in Virginia, without previous large-scale detention experience, mostly focused on smaller administrative and logistics contracts (often under $2 million).
Disaster Management Group (Subcontractor)
A key subcontractor owned by Nathan Albers, a Republican donor whose former firm pleaded guilty in 2019 for employing undocumented workers under a shell-company scheme.
Disaster Management specializes in erecting large-scale temporary housing (often used in refugee projects). It has received over $500 million in federal contracts since 2020.
Its workforce practices have drawn legal and ethical scrutiny: a 2022 Department of Labor review found wage and overtime violations, leading to nearly $16 million in recovered back pay and compliance enforcement.
Amentum (Another Subcontractor)
A large engineering and tech services firm tapped to support unspecified portions of the Fort Bliss project, likely involving logistics, structure builds, and base coordination.
Why This Should Outrage You
It’s Yet Another Trumpian Grift! Public Funds Are Fueling Private Profits
Taxpayer money is funding manufacturers of suffering—people with no due process detained in harsh, tented desert conditions. It’s a state funded deliberate cruelty.
The Blueprint of Authoritarianism
Let’s break it down:
Scapegoat a vulnerable group.
Detain them en masse with no trial.
Use military infrastructure and private contractors to bypass accountability.
Build in remote areas—out of sight, out of mind.
Brand it with Orwellian irony.
“Fort Bliss”? That’s not just cruel. It’s fascist stagecraft.
This isn’t about security. It’s about dehumanization at scale, with taxpayer money funding open-air internment that recalls the ugliest chapters of history. Sound familiar?
What You Can Do
Mobilize; Organize or attend protests in Texas. Follow groups like the ACLU , RAICES, and the Detention Watch Network.
Demand Oversight: Call reps. Demand medical transparency, independent inspections, and an immediate halt to construction.
Support Legal Aid: Many detainees will have no lawyer. Contribute to immigrant defense funds now.
Final Thought
Stop saying “it can’t happen here.” It already is.
We’re not just locking people up—we’re engineering human suffering. And we’re doing it with public funds, in military facilities, under desert sun, with names like Alligator Alcatraz, Fort Bliss to mock our conscience.
If we let this slide, history won’t ask if we knew. It will ask why we stayed silent.
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