If you thought the “Hub City” was isolated, take a five-hour drive down to El Paso. There, the federal government has traded West Texas hospitality for a sprawling, 5,000-bed tent city at Fort Bliss that’s giving some serious “internment chic”. While we’re busy arguing over school board seats, the feds are running Camp East Montana—a “hastily built” facility where the rule of law goes to die in the desert heat.
The conditions are exactly what you’d expect when you hire a Virginia logistics firm with zero listed experience running a correction facility to manage a massive cage. We’re talking about “inhumane conditions” including physical abuse and alarming medical neglect. The medical wing is currently hosting a revival of the 19th-century’s greatest hits, featuring active Tuberculosis and a side of COVID-19. It’s not just a detention center; it’s a petri dish with a zip code.
But here’s the real kicker for the “freedom” crowd: people are actually dying under “mysterious” circumstances. Take Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose death was first called “medical distress,” then a “suicide,” and is now officially a homicide according to the medical examiner. Apparently, there was so much pressure on his neck and chest that he couldn’t breathe. About a third of the 3,100 people trapped there have chronic illnesses, and hundreds need daily insulin, yet they’re being managed by a company that’s seemingly getting worse, not better.
At what point do we stop calling these “detention centers” and start calling them what they are—expensive, state-sponsored concentration camps where the only thing “logistically” handled is how to make human rights disappear?
Since the government is already looking to build even bigger camps in El Paso and Dallas for 9,500 people each, I guess the plan is to just keep scaling up the homicide-by-neglect business model?
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/ice-facility-el-paso-tuberculosis/