When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, … it handed the project on a military base to a small business that … lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.

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      They see that there are no consequences anymore. They’ve removed or rendered ineffective any mechanism in the system that could have stopped them.