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Trump admin to open nation's largest immigration detention center in Texas with $1.2B contract
The Trump administration will open the nation's largest immigration detention center in Texas thanks to a massive contract worth $1.2 billion, according to a report. The feds will be able to hold up to 5,000 illegal immigrants at a time at Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, to meet the demands of the rapidly expanding Trump administration's deportation campaign, Bloomberg reported. Shackled migrants walk toward a military transport plane before their deportation from the US. US Department of Defense/AFP via Getty Images The Department of Defense awarded the contract, which ends Sept. 30, 2027, to Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics LLC to set up a tent city on the base. The Trump administration has sought to erect temporary facilities to hold migrants as it attempts to make room for the 3,000-person quota it's seeking to collar each day. The effort has been turbocharged by a new flood of $45 billion for new detention beds from Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The massive spending bill will double Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention capacity, with the goal of holding 100,000 illegal immigrants at a time as the Trump administration seeks to carry out 1 million deportations each year. ICE opened 'Alligator Alcatraz,' a tent detention center erected by the state of Florida in the middle of the alligator-infested swampland of the Everglades, earlier this month. The feds can currently hold up to 3,000 illegal immigrants there and hope to expand that to 5,000. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also set his sights on two additional military bases, Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey, for the deportation campaign, according to the Associated Press. The Trump administration has set out to deport one million illegal immigrants each year. AFP via Getty Images 'We're looking for any available bed space we can get that meets the detention standards we're accustomed to,' Trump's border czar Tom Homan said Friday. 'The faster we get the beds, the more people we can take off the street,' he added. Fort Bliss has previously been used for immigration purposes, housing unaccompanied migrant kids and Afghan refugees following the US withdrawal from the war-torn country, according to Stars and Stripes.
New York Post
24 minutes ago
- New York Post
Time to get real about the Muslim Brotherhood's Mideast menace
The United States may finally be getting serious about defanging the Muslim Brotherhood. A new bill making its way through Congress, the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025, represents a new chapter in America's complex history with the oldest and most influential Islamist movement. The bipartisan legislation, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Jared Moskowitz, would for the first time designating the global Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, clearing the way for US sanctions. Advertisement Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Brotherhood's member groups operate in virtually all Muslim-majority countries, as well as in the West. Each branch proclaims the same core worldview of Muslim supremacy, but adapts tactics and goals to the local environment — some at times engaging in democratic politics and legitimate activism, others deploying brutal violence. Hamas, the official Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood, is a prime example of this pattern: It has participated in elections and seeks to govern, but also has a 40-year history of unspeakable terror. Advertisement America has historically struggled to find a coherent posture toward this complex movement. It has generally regarded the Brotherhood negatively, at least partially returning the visceral hatred the group spews against the United States. But at times, Washington has seen the group as a tactical ally on the geopolitical chessboard. During the Cold War, many US analysts believed the Brothers' opposition to Communist atheism made them a valid alternative to the Middle East's Soviet-leaning regimes. Advertisement In 2011, when the Brotherhood gained power in various countries after the Arab Spring, President Barack Obama looked at that development with favor — sparking anger in longstanding regional allies. Many American policymakers and State Department aides remain sympathetic to the Brotherhood, and in academia, support for it is all but reflexive. Yet, despite the whitewashing attempts of its many cheerleaders, the Brothers — as the ideological forefathers of today's jihadists — maintain a century-long tradition of anti-Western, anti-American, antisemitic and anti-democratic dogma. Advertisement Tellingly, several of al Qaeda's founders were ex-Brotherhood members — who became disillusioned with the group's only partial embrace of violence. Moreover, several Brotherhood branches and spin-offs have directly engaged in violence, and like Hamas have long been designated as terror groups by the United States. America's challenges with the Brotherhood are not unique. Most European countries actively monitor the group's activities on their territory. In 2014, a British government review concluded that 'the aspects of Muslim Brotherhood ideology and tactics, in this country and overseas, are contrary to our values, our national interests and our national security.' Last month, France released a report making a similar assessment, leading President Emanuel Macron to call for stringent measures against the group. Cruz's bill differs from those introduced in Congress in the past. It does not seek to wholly ban the organization, acknowledging, 'Not all Muslim Brotherhood branches are currently violent.' Rather, it seeks to sanction violent Brotherhood branches around the world — and to create a legal framework for a wider designation in the future. Advertisement The measure is gaining support in Congress, and even if it does not pass, President Donald Trump may choose to move against the Brotherhood in an executive order. Get opinions and commentary from our columnists Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters Either way, the United States should take a closer look and a tougher position toward the Brotherhood, both abroad and at home. Internationally, the ambiguous positions of the past must be no more. Instead, US policies should aim to diminish Muslim Brotherhood influence. Advertisement Domestically, law-enforcement agencies should use existing legal tools to go after the web of US-based Brotherhood spin-offs. Whether by designation or not, a tough, clever and coherent Muslim Brotherhood policy would represent a break from decades of half-baked positions — and a step forward in undermining one of America's historical foes. Lorenzo Vidino is the director of the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University and author of 'The Closed Circle: Joining and Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood in the West.'
Wall Street Journal
26 minutes ago
- Wall Street Journal
Beware Iran's New Ruling Elite
All wars have consequences, particularly for the vanquished. For the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 12-Day War—its recent conflict with Israel and the U.S.—hasn't been a soul-scorching, society-rending fight in the way of the Iran-Iraq War. From 1980-88, hundreds of thousands perished and battlefield trauma nearly cracked the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the theocracy's indispensable pillar. But that conflict did offer an opportunity for Iran: The struggle led the regime to build institutions that guaranteed the revolution's survival. The 12-Day War, by contrast, has weakened the heads of those institutions substantially and looks likely to launch a new generation of leaders. That's bad news for Israel and America.
