Inside Camp East Montana: A Grim Reality of Neglect and Mismanagement at America’s Largest ICE Detention Center

Deep in the Texas desert lies Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility—a sprawling tent city that has become synonymous with human misery. For five months, nearly one distress call a day from this camp revealed urgent episodes of pain, self-harm, and violence among detainees. Yet these cries have largely fallen on deaf ears in Washington. How Did America End Up With a Desert Internment Camp Worse Than Prison? The facility at Fort Bliss is nothing short of a throwback to darker moments in our history. With thousands of men crammed into windowless...