ICE just forked out contracts worth a combined $426 million to firms with almost no experience running detention centers as Secretary Kristi Noem’s ouster plunges the Department of Homeland Security into fresh chaos.
The Trump administration on Friday awarded $113.1 million to defense firm KVG LLC to build a new migrant warehouse in Maryland, and $313.4 million to security group GardaWorld Federal Services to run another planned facility in Arizona, The Washington Post reports.
The newspaper adds that KVG has never before worked as an immigration contractor. GardaWorld provides guards at the “Alligator Alcatraz” compound in Florida, as well as other centers in Canada, but has not previously been awarded tenders to actually run any facilities on behalf of ICE.
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