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Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

The Pentagon has refused to release the contract or explain why it selected Acquisition Logistics over a dozen other bidders to build the massive tent camp at Fort Bliss in west Texas.

By Michael Biesecker and Joshua Goodman, Associated Press
Camp East Montana, site of a migrant detention center on Fort Bliss in East El Paso, under construction in East El Paso on August 11, 2025.

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