1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

This is happening in our state. What are you doing to stop it? Camp East Montana is a massive tent camp sitting on Fort Bliss military base near El Paso, Texas. It opened in August 2025 and almost immediately became the largest ICE detention facility in the entire United States holding over 2,700 people. In tents in the Texas heat. In its first 50 days alone, ICE’s own internal oversight unit inspected the facility and found it was violating at least 60 federal detention standards. Nearly one 911 emergency call has come out of that facility every single day. Those calls are for suicide attempts. Seizures causing head injuries. Assaults between detainees. A pregnant woman screaming in pain who had received zero prenatal care. Three people have died there in just a few months. One death was ruled a homicide asphyxia after an altercation with guards, another was a suspected suicide, and a third man, from Cuba, also died inside. A man who spent months detained at Camp East Montana before being deported to the Netherlands sat down with the Associated Press and told them what he witnessed. He said he overheard a security guard discussing a betting pool among staff. They were wagering money on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. He heard this conversation right after a man died inside the facility. And then he said he had contemplated suicide himself while he was in there. After all of this ICE is quietly reconsidering whether to keep the facility open at all. No accountability or consequences for anyone involved. Just a plan to maybe shut it down before more people start asking questions. All Texans should be ashamed and horrified that this is happening in our state. I repeat: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO STOP THIS??