ICE moves to close Fort Bliss detention camp
TL;DR
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking steps to close Camp East Montana, a large migrant detention facility at Fort Bliss near El Paso that opened less than eight months ago, according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post; the planned shutdown, following a turbulent period that saw three detainees die at the camp, would end the detention experiment.
- ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows The Washington Post
- ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation's largest detention facility in Texas NBC News
- A large immigration detention camp in Texas is closed to visitors amid measles outbreak CNN
- Report: ICE plans to close Camp East Montana, nation's largest detention facility KFOX
- 14 measles cases reported at El Paso ICE tent camp as Democrats call for its shuttering The Texas Tribune
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