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<p>Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY July 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM</p>
<p>The U.S. Army has hired a contractor to build the nation's largest ICE detention center, the latest move by President Donald Trump to use the military to deliver his promised mass deportations.</p>
<p>Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics LLC will erect a temporary immigration detention center on Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, near the southern border, with 5,000 beds, under a $232 million contract, according to the Department of Defense.</p>
<p>The cost will likely rise. A similar tent city built to house unaccompanied migrant children on Fort Bliss in 2021 during the Biden administration ballooned within months to nearly $1 billion.</p>
<p>Acquisition Logistics has served as a private contractor to the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines for more than a decade, according to federal procurement data.</p>
<p>The company's website was "down for maintenance" on July 23, and USA TODAY couldn't reach a company representative online or by phone.</p>
<p>Trump has vowed to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally, and Congress recently appropriated $170 billion in new money to help him do it.</p>
<p>More: Fort Bliss once housed refugees, now set for largest ICE deportation center</p>
<p>Migrants are searched by security after being taken off a bus and then loaded onto an airplane at the Alexandria Staging Facility in Alexandria, Louisiana on June 9, 2025.</p>
<p>The nation's system of immigration detention centers is under strain, as arrests of undocumented immigrants have risen in recent months.</p>
<p>The White House touted its arrest record in a statement July 22: "Across the country, arrests of criminal illegal immigrants have soared as President Donald J. Trump makes good on his promise to rid our communities of these threats to public safety."</p>
<p>The latest ICE data showed there were nearly 57,000 people in immigration detention, up from fewer than 40,000 at the close of the Biden administration.</p>
<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump to build nation's largest ICE detention center on Army base</p>
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