{"id":1503,"date":"2026-06-09T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:07:50","slug":"ice-detention-center-in-texas-flagged-for-missing-records-medical-failures-and-wasteful-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"ICE detention center in Texas flagged for missing records, medical failures and wasteful spending"},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – A federal immigration detention center in Texas erected by the Trump administration failed to issue use-of-force reports, did not give medicine to \u200bseriously ill detainees and wasted tens of millions in taxpayer dollars \u200cthrough rushed contracts, a U.S. government watchdog report published on Tuesday said.<\/div>
The report, issued by the Government Accountability Office, found “significant, pervasive issues” with planning and oversight at the Camp East Montana detention \u200bcenter.<\/div>
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to detain record numbers of \u200bimmigrants as part of Trump’s mass deportation effort. Some 57,000 immigrants \u2060were detained as of early June, two sources familiar with the matter told \u200bReuters, up from around 40,000 when Trump took office in 2025.<\/div>
Camp East Montana was \u200bopened in August 2025 on the grounds of the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso using an expedited military contracting process to speed up its construction. Under the fast-track process, \u200bU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave the contract to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a \u200bsmall firm with no prior detention experience.<\/div>
The GAO report raised questions about the handling of two deaths \u200cat \u2060the facility in January 2026, one ruled a homicide and the other a suicide.<\/div>
In the homicide death, the detention center did not provide use-of-force or death reports to ICE and evidence “was missing or destroyed,” the report said.<\/div>
In the suicide, staff placed \u200bthe detainee in a \u200bmedical holding room \u2060instead of a suicide-resistant cell and left the person unattended for longer than 15 minutes, the report said.<\/div>
When ICE medical \u200bofficials visited the site in December 2025, they found that \u200bthe medical \u2060contractor did not provide treatment and care to detainees with chronic health problems.<\/div>
“For example, none of the detained noncitizens with diabetes or HIV had treatment plans in place,” \u2060the report \u200bsaid.<\/div>
ICE and Acquisition Logistics did not immediately respond \u200bto requests for comment.<\/div>
The contract for Camp East Montana was abruptly shifted to Amentum Services Inc in \u200bMarch 2026.<\/div>