Immigration officials consider bid for new 'hotel-like' detention center

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Federal immigration officials are moving forward with plans for a new 500-bed family detention center to house migrant women and children, even as many advocates and politicians have called for the closure of such facilities altogether.

Officials in Dimmit County, 45 miles from the Texas border with Mexico, say they’ll consider a bid on Monday from a firm who says their facility in a 27-acre former work camp for oil workers would provide dramatically better conditions than two other family detention centers in the state.

Those facilities have faced complaints of poor food, inadequate medical care and allegations of sexual abuse from detainees, activists and the US Civil Rights Commission.

“Our facility offers a community-based alternative that will allow children to live in a home setting, attend school, and access critical legal and social services,” Stratton Oilfield Systems said in a pitch to potential partners.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...lfield-systems


Who else thinks we should start building massive labor complexes for our guests, instead? They could eat, sleep, and shit in peace yet still be forced to contribute to society. Government support would be justified, as all the money that they generate would be pumped back into the economy. Who's on board?