{"id":18930,"date":"2025-08-07T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18930"},"modified":"2025-08-07T21:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:31:44","slug":"trump-administration-plans-to-spend-1-26-billion-on-an-immigrant-detention-center-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18930","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Plans To Spend $1.26 Billion on an Immigrant Detention Center in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The Trump administration has awarded a Virginia-based defense contractor a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-22\/trump-awards-immigration-detention-center-contract-for-fort-bliss-in-texas?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=share&amp;utm_campaign=copy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.26 billion<\/a>&nbsp;contract to build a 5,000-bed immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, reports&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>. The newest\u2014and biggest\u2014facility will be located at the 1 million-acre Fort Bliss Army base, equipped with tents for detention infrastructure and an airport to serve as a deportation hub.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/22\/trump-administration-plans-to-spend-1-26-billion-on-an-immigrant-detention-center-in-texas\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/22\/trump-administration-plans-to-spend-1-26-billion-on-an-immigrant-detention-center-in-texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Trump administration has awarded a Virginia-based defense contractor a $1.26 billion contract to build a 5,000-bed immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, reports Bloomberg. The newest\u2014and biggest\u2014facility will be located at the 1 million-acre Fort Bliss Army base, equipped with tents for detention infrastructure and an airport to serve as a deportation hub.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/22\/trump-administration-plans-to-spend-1-26-billion-on-an-immigrant-detention-center-in-texas\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,26,493,25,21,170],"class_list":["post-18930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-texas","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18931,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18930\/revisions\/18931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}