President Donald Trump's administration has awarded a $1.2 billion contract to a tiny Virginia company to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex at Fort Bliss in Texas.

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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There was a lot of use of concentration camps before WWII, including by Germans and the Brits (and the U.S. when it came to Native Americans).