The Tent Company Profiting from Trump's Deportation Plans
a year ago
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- ICE awarded a $3.8 billion contract to Deployed Resources to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss, marking the largest contract for the company.
- Deployed Resources, originally a logistics business for music festivals, pivoted to immigration detention, leveraging connections with DHS and hiring former agency insiders.
- The company has secured over $4 billion in government contracts for building and operating border tent facilities.
- Under Trump's second term, the government plans to spend up to $45 billion on immigrant detention, including tent camps on military bases.
- Deployed Resources is modifying CBP tents in El Paso for ICE detainees, adding rigid structures and security measures.
- Critics, including the ACLU, warn that tent camps for ICE detainees could exacerbate issues like abuse, neglect, and lack of due process.
- Deployed Resources has hired several former ICE and DHS officials to strengthen its government contracting prospects.
- The company has faced scrutiny for wasteful spending and inadequate training in past contracts, including facilities that remained unused.
- Private prison giants like GEO Group and CoreCivic are also vying for contracts in the expanding immigration detention market.
- Deployed Resources continues to expand its influence, recently hiring a former ICE senior executive, signaling its readiness for new government contracts.