The Trump administration plans to tap a major engineering and electronic services company to run the country’s largest immigration detention center, where one detainee was killed and two others have died.
The Department of Homeland Security intends to award the no-bid contract to run Camp East Montana and manage its detainees to Chantilly, Virginia-based Amentum Services Inc. The company would replace Acquisition Logistics, a small Richmond, Virginia-based government contractor that DHS hired last July for $1.2 billion to build and operate the ICE facility at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base in El Paso, Texas.
NBC News reported this month that ICE was re-evaluating the future of Camp East Montana.
Amentum has been a subcontractor at the sprawling tented facility, which has drawn scrutiny since its construction. The facility, which housed almost 3,000 immigrants as of mid-February, was quickly erected to advance President Donald Trump’s mass deportation strategy, which requires doubling detention space
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