Overview

• An internal ICE oversight report documented at least 60 standards violations within weeks of the tent facility’s August opening at Fort Bliss.
• Inspectors cited missing medical records, failures in intake screening, unmonitored suicide watch, and use of psychotropic medication without recorded consent.
• Early detainees were held in large tents on an active construction site with broken plumbing, inadequate food and recreation, and inconsistent access to phones.
• Family members and attorneys struggled to reach clients as the site was not listed on ICE’s locator, and legal visitors — including Rep. Veronica Escobar — were turned away.
• ICE plans to scale capacity to about 2,700 beds this month and up to 5,000 by year’s end under a $232 million award to Acquisition Logistics, with medical services from Loyal Source previously flagged for understaffing.