ICE is preparing to shutter a new $1.2 billion detention center that was seen as a prototype for other large-scale detention facilities less than a year after it opened.
Camp East Montana, a tent encampment built on scrubland next to the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, began receiving detainees on Aug. 1, 2025, but it quickly was accused of appalling human rights abuses. Three migrants died in the facility within the space of two months, according to a leaked document.
The facility was initially touted as a blueprint for a new generation of rapid-build detention facilities, and the Department of Homeland Security, led by Kristi Noem, dismissed initial criticism of the facility’s conditions as a “smear campaign.”
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