Opening of new migrant detention center in Texas met with protests

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Source: ABC News

August 18, 2025, 7:27 PM


Camp East Montana, the latest and largest of the new migrant detention centers opening across the country, has been met with criticism from immigration advocates after officially opening Sunday. Protesters greeted the opening of the facility over the weekend.

The detention center, on the grounds of Texas' Fort Bliss, can currently house 1,000 migrants, with officials saying it can eventually expand to hold 5,000.

"We are demanding that this administration do what they say they're going to do if they're not going to close the camps," Marisa Limon Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, told El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA. "At a minimum, we need access to people who have due process and should have access to attorneys."

The criticism came as a federal judge on Monday heard arguments from lawyers for detainees at the Florida detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz," who say they lack proper attorney access and are being held without any formal criminal or immigration charges against them.

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[Lovie777]

1. Diseases are running rampus in the concentration camps.................

and will spill over to the residents in the USA. With the jackass RFK, jr at the helm we are fucked.

shithole and comrades besides higher prices, the violence and hatred, here also comes as unhealthy USA.

[Nigrum Cattus]

2. Why do the repugs want to keep these people ?

If there goal is to deport people, why "detain" them ?
The are unconstitutionally not giving them due process.
Why not deport them ?

[duhneece]

3. Profit for their private prison corporations

Greed is the answer

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I imagine it takes awhile

to arrange deportation, especially for thousands of people. They can't just dump them off without, I suppose, discussions with the state departnents and/or embassies in wherever they want to ship them. Then, arranging transportation for so many people has to be problematic.

Then there's the cost, but I doubt they think much or care about that.

Besides -- if they don't keep them here for awhile, they don't get to abuse them as much, and that limits their fun.

[EarthFirst]

5. There are billions to be made on this dehumanizing process...

…the profit motive was part of the plan all along.

Suck fucks.