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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.
A large immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, has barred visitors due to a measles outbreak among detainees and staff, prompting health and security precautions.
A third undocumented immigrant detainee has died at Camp East Montana, ICE’s tent camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, within 44 days. Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, from Nicaragua, was found unconscious and died after being pronounced dead; ICE says the death is presumed suicide, with the official cause under investigation. The facility houses about 2,900 detainees and has drawn congressional concerns about safety as ICE expands tent-based detention. Earlier deaths at the camp include Francisco Gaspar-Andres (liver and kidney failure) and Geraldo Lunas Campos (medical distress), with investigations ongoing.
A Nicaraguan immigrant, Victor Manuel Diaz, was found dead inside a Texas detention facility, as satellite imagery shows Fort Bliss expanding with large white tents for a new immigrant detention center outside El Paso, highlighting ongoing detention expansion and concerns about migrant detentions.
A 55-year-old Cuban migrant died in ICE custody at Camp East Montana on Fort Bliss in El Paso after ICE said he experienced medical distress. Local medical examiner preliminary findings point to asphyxia due to neck and chest compression, prompting potential homicide investigations pending toxicology results. Witnesses interviewed by the Washington Post described guards choking him during a struggle as he resisted segregation for medication, while ICE reported he became disruptive and was placed in segregation. Autopsy results are pending, and the case is part of a broader spike in detainee deaths in early 2025 and ongoing scrutiny of Fort Bliss detention conditions.
A Guatemalan man died of natural causes after being detained by ICE at Fort Bliss, Texas, while his wife was deported without seeing him again, raising concerns about inhumane conditions and medical neglect at detention facilities.
A man believed to have died at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz is actually alive and being secretly transferred between detention facilities, facing harsh conditions and legal battles over his deportation, highlighting issues in US immigration detention practices.
The Trump administration has opened a large immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss, a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, sparking criticism and comparisons to WWII internment practices, with concerns over militarization and human rights.
Japanese American groups criticize the new ICE detention center at Fort Bliss, a site with a dark history of internment during WWII, arguing it echoes past injustices and raises concerns about human rights and racial profiling, despite official claims of targeting dangerous criminals.
The Trump administration has opened what could be the largest immigration detention site in the U.S. at Fort Bliss, Texas, using military facilities to detain up to 5,000 people in harsh conditions, raising concerns about militarization, transparency, and human rights violations, with plans to expand to other bases amid significant federal funding and historical misuse of military sites for detention.
A Fort Bliss soldier, Taylor Adam Lee, was arrested for attempting to transmit U.S. defense information to Russia, including technical data on military equipment and hardware, violating security protocols and export laws.
The Department of Defense awarded a contract to Disaster Management Group, owned by Nathan Albers with a controversial history involving undocumented workers, to build the largest migrant detention camp at Fort Bliss, amid broader efforts to expand immigration detention capacity in the US.
A training accident in the Fort Bliss training area has resulted in the death of one soldier and left five others injured. The incident is currently under investigation.
An Army soldier was killed and five others were injured in a "tactical vehicle accident" at Fort Bliss in Texas. The cause of the crash is under investigation, and the conditions of the injured soldiers are unknown. The deceased soldier's name is being withheld until family notification. Fort Bliss, home to the 1st Armored Division, has not disclosed the type of vehicle involved in the incident.