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Amendment to detention contract notice drops detainee-transport reporting requirement

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A requirement that private contractors report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement each month on every detainee they transport was deleted Thursday afternoon from the contract documents for four proposed “turnkey” detention...

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The Office of Refugee Resettlement is assembling a bench of contractors to house migrant children on 30 days' notice

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About 150 companies joined an open call with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, on Aug. 18 to hear whether they could support a federal request for emergency housing for a potential influx of migrant children.

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ICE awards GardaWorld up to $382 million to move detainees across Texas

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded GardaWorld Federal Services a contract worth up to $382 million to provide armed, around-the-clock ground transportation for people taken into custody under the 287(g) program in all 2...

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Mobile detention sites, courtrooms inside the jails, and a clause saying state law does not apply. What ICE's new detention solicitation reveals

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A federal contract solicitation posted Friday lays out, in mo...

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ICE Awards GardaWorld $17.3 Million to Convert San Antonio Warehouse Into a Service Processing Center

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded GardaWorld Federal Services $17.3 million on Thursday to renovate an agency-owned building in San Antonio into an immigration processing and detention facility, using the Navy contra...

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    Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.

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    Independent data journalist and erstwhile photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. Public record enthusiast at Project Salt Box. Views are my own.

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    Migrant, total liberationist, aspiring polyglot. Ardently, quietly, etc.

  • Em Knepp

    Independent researcher and writer with a focus on immigration enforcement and federal procurement. Views are my own.

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