All articles tagged with #fort bliss
Originally Published 18 days ago — by The Guardian
A Guatemalan man died of natural causes after being detained by ICE at Fort Bliss, Texas, while his wife was deported without seeing him again, raising concerns about inhumane conditions and medical neglect at detention facilities.
Originally Published 4 months ago — by The Guardian
A man believed to have died at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz is actually alive and being secretly transferred between detention facilities, facing harsh conditions and legal battles over his deportation, highlighting issues in US immigration detention practices.
Originally Published 4 months ago — by Rolling Stone
The Trump administration has opened a large immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss, a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, sparking criticism and comparisons to WWII internment practices, with concerns over militarization and human rights.
Originally Published 4 months ago — by NBC News
Japanese American groups criticize the new ICE detention center at Fort Bliss, a site with a dark history of internment during WWII, arguing it echoes past injustices and raises concerns about human rights and racial profiling, despite official claims of targeting dangerous criminals.
Originally Published 4 months ago — by American Civil Liberties Union
The Trump administration has opened what could be the largest immigration detention site in the U.S. at Fort Bliss, Texas, using military facilities to detain up to 5,000 people in harsh conditions, raising concerns about militarization, transparency, and human rights violations, with plans to expand to other bases amid significant federal funding and historical misuse of military sites for detention.
Originally Published 5 months ago — by Department of Justice (.gov)
A Fort Bliss soldier, Taylor Adam Lee, was arrested for attempting to transmit U.S. defense information to Russia, including technical data on military equipment and hardware, violating security protocols and export laws.
Originally Published 5 months ago — by ProPublica
The Department of Defense awarded a contract to Disaster Management Group, owned by Nathan Albers with a controversial history involving undocumented workers, to build the largest migrant detention camp at Fort Bliss, amid broader efforts to expand immigration detention capacity in the US.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by KFOX El Paso
A training accident in the Fort Bliss training area has resulted in the death of one soldier and left five others injured. The incident is currently under investigation.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by New York Post
An Army soldier was killed and five others were injured in a "tactical vehicle accident" at Fort Bliss in Texas. The cause of the crash is under investigation, and the conditions of the injured soldiers are unknown. The deceased soldier's name is being withheld until family notification. Fort Bliss, home to the 1st Armored Division, has not disclosed the type of vehicle involved in the incident.