Trump scraps $3.8B contract for immigrant detention camp -- days after issuing it

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Source: Raw Story/ProPublica

April 24, 2025 12:57PM ET


In an unusual move, the administration of President Donald Trump has canceled a $3.8 billion contract to build an immigrant detention camp in Fort Bliss, Texas, just days after issuing it. That doesn’t mean the job won’t go forward. Sources told ProPublica the administration still intends to move ahead with the plan to build a tent detention camp at Fort Bliss. A site visit for interested contractors took place on Wednesday.

The job promises to be highly sought after as Trump officials plan to pour billions of dollars into building detention facilities as part of the president’s push to deport more immigrants. Why the contract was posted and then canceled is unclear. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded the contract on April 10 to Deployed Resources, a privately held company, according to data posted on a federal procurement website.

ProPublica published a profile of the company on April 11, describing its ascension from running facilities at music festivals into a government contracting juggernaut that, like other vendors, is pursuing billions of dollars in detention contracts planned under Trump. Company executives, ProPublica found, had hired more than a dozen former government insiders as it built its business over the years. Recent hires included some high-ranking former officials from ICE, the agency that would be tasked with carrying out Trump’s promises of mass deportation.

Then, on April 13, the administration reversed course and terminated the contract with Deployed Resources “for convenience,” according to data posted to the federal contracting site. An ICE spokesperson confirmed that the award was made and then canceled, and that “a revised procurement action for Fort Bliss is currently active and ongoing.” The agency did not answer questions about why it reversed course.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-scraps-3-8b-contract-for-immigrant-detention-camp-days-after-issuing-it/

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When Prime Contractors respond to Sources Sought, RFIs and/or RFQs and/or RFPs, let alone submitting a final bid, there's a lot of work put into their documents (often a binder full of stuff for big projects like this). Just shunting it aside like that can be maddening I expect, let alone awarding and then rescinding.

[BoRaGard]

1. "Sorry I'm so stupid and corrupt." - Krasnov (R-Felon)

[OnlinePoker]

2. So, will Deployed Resources get a payout for the cancelled contract?

They built migrant holding facilities along the border during Trump's first term as well.

[patphil]

3. That would have consumed all the monies Musk "saved" from his war on America.

[Karasu]

4. The incompetence is too painful to endure.

[Scruffy1]

5. Maybe he thinks he can get more in bribes from someone else.

Living on the border I've had to endure this shit show way to long. Deployed Resources built a 2500 tent facility about 20 miles south of me in 2019. It never held over 68 people and was closed in 2020. They have been caught faking records to increase their billings. It's like sending the National Guard down here for photo ops even though they are untrained and useless. Same with the State Troopers who park their cars along Loop 375 and have nothing to do except collect their overtime. Of course the media ignores the facts and keeps selling fear. Last year they were forecasting a big rush at the border. I paid my fifty cents walked across the Paso del Norte and within ten minutes realized that the tent city on the Mexican was nearly empty and there were very in the informal camps. You would think that someone in the press could take the 10 minute walk over the bridge and assess the situation. like I did. This whole "immigration crises" is nothing but a massive fraud to get big contracts and I assume big dollar kick backs to government officials.

[Bengus81]

6. Pfffttt...Texas will have undocumented workers working on it like

about every other industry there. You know...that DIRTY little secret that Abbot and others never want to discuss?

[IbogaProject]

7. Anther chance for bribes

This guy is so transparent.

[kimbutgar]

8. Maybe a private investor will pay for it in order to get a massive government payback contract !

They are that despicable and dishonest.

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. NOT YET! we're trying to reduce the balance on the books.

Didn't you guys get the memo. No more big purchases until we get the tax cuts.

When your buying a new home, you don't buy a new car until after escrow closes.

[Old Crank]

10. Just waiting to see which contractors

will buy a bunch of $Trump coins....

[kkmarie]

11. Or give the contract to space nazi

He's talked about building a "company town " in Texas. He wants to build a colony on Mars. He's built a compound for all his children and the mothers.
Why not give another government contact to space nazi?