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Veronica Escobar: “The company that was hired to run Camp East Montana had…”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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Congresswoman Escobar Discusses Camp East Montana during ICE, CBP Funding Debate

Published | Video Starts at 04:21

Meanwhile, the private corporations who won these contracts, by the way, with no bid contract, so there was no competitive bidding that took place. The company that was hired to run Camp East Montana had never run immigration detention ever before. but were supposed to care for 5,000 people per day. There was a homicide inside of Camp East Montana, and I still have yet to get information on what the consequences were for the private detention employee who committed the homicide. (04:21–04:31)

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Asserts that the company running Camp East Montana had no prior experience in immigration detention.

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