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“ “This is very normal. … The problem is, this is going to happen more and more and more because drones are the new normal; #drones are going to be operating,” Ritondale said.
He said the 10-day #NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) shutdown of airspace over #ElPaso made little to no sense considering the size and population of the city. He speculated that communications became muzzled from #JointTaskForce Southern Border up to #NORTHCOM, and then within the #DOW, the base command within #FortBliss, and then with the #FAA.”
Last February, NOTAM for 10 days? …more drones. ✈️🛸
#USA / #Texas / #UAS / #UAP <https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026/02/11/el-paso-airspace-closure-federal-government-messaging-shows-breakdown.html>
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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion #Detention Deal To hold 5,000 human beings.
by Samantha Michaels, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city #detention center in #Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the #FortBliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, #AcquisitionLogistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in #RichmondVA. Almost nobody had heard of it. 'A random house…just won $1.26 billion from #ICE,' wrote the New Republic.
"Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO #KenWagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header 'Site maintenance in progress.' Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?"
#USPol #CampEastMontana #ICEDetentionCenters #Immigrants #HumanRights #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishCBP #DetentionFacility #DetentionCenters
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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion #Detention Deal To hold 5,000 human beings.
by Samantha Michaels, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city #detention center in #Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the #FortBliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, #AcquisitionLogistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in #RichmondVA. Almost nobody had heard of it. 'A random house…just won $1.26 billion from #ICE,' wrote the New Republic.
"Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO #KenWagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header 'Site maintenance in progress.' Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?"
#USPol #CampEastMontana #ICEDetentionCenters #Immigrants #HumanRights #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishCBP #DetentionFacility #DetentionCenters
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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion #Detention Deal To hold 5,000 human beings.
by Samantha Michaels, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city #detention center in #Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the #FortBliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, #AcquisitionLogistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in #RichmondVA. Almost nobody had heard of it. 'A random house…just won $1.26 billion from #ICE,' wrote the New Republic.
"Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO #KenWagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header 'Site maintenance in progress.' Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?"
#USPol #CampEastMontana #ICEDetentionCenters #Immigrants #HumanRights #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishCBP #DetentionFacility #DetentionCenters
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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion #Detention Deal To hold 5,000 human beings.
by Samantha Michaels, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city #detention center in #Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the #FortBliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, #AcquisitionLogistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in #RichmondVA. Almost nobody had heard of it. 'A random house…just won $1.26 billion from #ICE,' wrote the New Republic.
"Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO #KenWagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header 'Site maintenance in progress.' Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?"
#USPol #CampEastMontana #ICEDetentionCenters #Immigrants #HumanRights #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishCBP #DetentionFacility #DetentionCenters
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How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion #Detention Deal To hold 5,000 human beings.
by Samantha Michaels, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract this summer to build and operate a new tent city #detention center in #Texas, it made headlines, and not just because the facility, located at the #FortBliss Army base, was expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country. The company that won the job, #AcquisitionLogistics, was so small it operated out of a single-family home in #RichmondVA. Almost nobody had heard of it. 'A random house…just won $1.26 billion from #ICE,' wrote the New Republic.
"Whereas many companies with ICE contracts had long histories with immigrant detention, including private prison giants such as GEO Group, Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO #KenWagner is circling retirement at 77. Over the summer, the company’s website was inaccessible to the public, with the header 'Site maintenance in progress.' Archived screenshots showed the firm specializes in supply chain management. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?"
#USPol #CampEastMontana #ICEDetentionCenters #Immigrants #HumanRights #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishCBP #DetentionFacility #DetentionCenters
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Aviation weather for Biggs Army Air Field (Fort Bliss) airport in Fort Bliss and El Paso area (USA) is “KBIF 221755Z AUTO 10013G17KT 10SM BKN240 13/M11 A3053 RMK AO2 SLP319 T01341112 10134 20044 50001 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kbif/en #biggsarmyairfieldfortblissairport #airport #fortbliss #elpaso #usa #kbif #bif #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flights-airport
Hey y’all, keep an eye on the Texas Mexico border. Weird things are afoot at the Circle K.
So, first the government announced, with no warning to airlines or local authorities, that they were closing the El Paso airport for 10 days. That’s a big deal, El Paso is the 23rd largest city in the country, and most travel from the lower states going west transits through El Paso.
They claimed it was because of a drone invasion from Mexico. Sure, Jan.
Then the government lifted the close, but still can’t explain it. Here’s the thing, the battalion who trains with drones is at #FortBliss & its airfield, #biggsarmyairfield near El Paso.
Edit: It's now appearing that the Army was testing lasers that could have downed an airliner? Maybe? Nobody in this regime would know the truth if it bit them.
Also edit: I had the wrong Fort. It's Bliss, not Hood.
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Multiple sources from the federal government & US airlines told CNN that #military activity near #ElPaso, including #US #drones monitoring #cartel operations & the #Pentagon’s planned use of a high-energy laser designed to counter drones, raised immediate concerns for civilian traffic arriving & departing #ELP. #FortBliss & its airfield, #BiggsArmyAirfield, sit just north of the commercial airport, which serves about 100 flights each day.
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Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas…“of a presumed suicide”
#ICE #Texas #ElPaso #FortBliss
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-reports-death-illegal-alien-custody-el-paso
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“Two cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 were recently identified at Camp East Montana, according to El Paso city officials and Congresswoman Veronica Escobar.
Escobar, D-El Paso, disclosed the infections after her Friday visit to Camp East Montana, the 5,000-bed tent facility the federal government hastily built last year on the Fort Bliss Army base.”
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The medical examiner in El Paso, Texas, has ruled that Geraldo Lunas Campos's death was, in fact, a homicide. Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at the Camp East Montana site at Fort Bliss in El Paso. He's the one who ICE claimed was trying to commit suicide, so the staff at the facility restrained and ultimately killed him to stop him from killing himself. So even if he did want to commit suicide, that would only mean that he died anyway, but with more pain, less agency, and less dignity.
I'm curious what the consequences will be for the medical examiner, but regardless, I do know that there's no way this administration is going to take action to stop people from dying at disproportionate rates at Camp East Montana unless they're somehow forced to. Maybe the courts can do that, but it's just as likely that they can't or, if they can, that it won't be until after the camp has claimed even more lives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/
#ICE #FuckICE #ElPaso #FortBliss #CampEastMontana #DeathInCustody #necropolitics #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood
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“Human rights advocates are intensifying their calls for action at the Camp East Montana #migrantdetentionfacility on #FortBliss, which is reportedly the largest in the nation.
The facility has been under scrutiny following allegations of abuse, unsanitary conditions, and limited access to legal counsel.”
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DHS Is Funneling $10 Billion to the Navy to Build a Network of Immigration Jails
The new jails are expected to look like the tent camps built at Fort Bliss, an immigration policy expert says. -
ICE report finds 60 violations in 50 days at Fort Bliss migrant facility
#HackerNews #ICE #Violations #FortBliss #MigrantFacility #Immigration #News #Texas
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The detention center at #FortBliss, called Camp East Montana, failed to properly monitor & treat some detainees’ medical conditions, lacked basic procedures for keeping guards & detainees safe & for weeks did not provide many of them a way to contact lawyers, learn about their cases or file complaints, according to a copy of the inspection report obtained by The Washington Post.
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60 violations in 50 days: Inside #ICE’s giant tent facility at #FortBliss
As the #Trump Administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, ICE’s own inspectors say the marquee #Texas project is violating dozens of federal standards for immigrant detention. -
Every veteran serving nonprofit should stand in solidarity with the Japanese American Citizens League in denouncing the Fort Bliss Concentration Camp
JACL: New ICE Dentention Center at Fort Bliss Dishonors Japanese American History
#ICE #FortBliss #nonprofit #veterans #racism #facism #internment #concentrationCamp
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A small Virginia company with no experience running prisons has won a $1.2B contract to build and manage a massive immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/mystery-surrounds-12-billion-army-contract-to-build-huge-detention-tent-camp-in-texas-desert-mj7kg8ow?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Immigration #DetentionCentre #UnitedStates #DonaldTrump #FortBliss
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Trump Administration Opens New Immigration Jail at Texas Military Base
Despite local opposition, the Trump administration has opened what’s expected to be the largest immigration jail in the country, on the grounds of the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas. In addition to Fort Bliss, the Trump administration also plans to detain immigrants on military bases in New Jersey and Indiana. On August 18, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas)…
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Aviation weather for Biggs Army Air Field (Fort Bliss) airport in Fort Bliss and El Paso area (USA) is “KBIF 082055Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 27/02 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP125 T02660018 57018 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kbif/en #fortbliss #elpaso #usa #biggsarmyairfieldfortblissairport #kbif #bif #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl
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Border Patrol apprehensions in the southwest are at historic lows, but the escalating military deployment continues and two young marines have died in a vehicle crash in Santa Teresa.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_2abf5e50-575f-4cb8-98a6-dab0004f3536.html
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NPR: #DHS memo lays out plans to detain migrants at #FortBliss and other U.S. bases
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307156/immigration-dhs-memo-trump-migrant-detention-military-bases -
Interest in V2 Rocket man #WernhervonBraun’s 1950 novel (from #FortBliss New Mexico) began when people connected Elon, the Martian leader, to SpaceX founder, Elon Musk. "Chapter 24: How Mars is Governed" states:
The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled "Elon." Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet.[13]
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"I don't have a mold problem, I have a discipline problem."
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