Good afternoon and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, mystery surrounds a $1.2 billion Army contract to build a huge detention tent camp in Texas; New Orleans is marking the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina; and for many families, every meal is a struggle in Venezuela's economic crisis.
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This Aug. 7, 2025, satellite image shows construction of large white tents for a new immigrant detention center at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base outside El Paso, Texas. (Planet Labs via AP) |
Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert |
When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation's largest immigration detention complex, it didn't turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons. Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. Read more. |
