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Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

ICE just signed $7.3 billion in contracts to build detention space on land it owns, after its warehouse plan stalled. A $1.2 billion contract for a California site ICE left in 2014 went to a company tied to a developer facing more than a dozen lawsuits.

projectsaltbox.comICE signs contracts worth up to $7.3B to expand detention in 5 statesWith its warehouse plan stalled, ICE is building on land it already owns, and one of the companies it hired is tied to a developer who worked on its earlier property deals.

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Marie In Atlanta
@marie-atl.bsky.social

Reminder: the basis for awarding a contract is that the vendor is the most responsive to the solicitation and most responsible to perform the work. A plethora of lawsuits may indicate an issue with the responsibility of the vendor. Things that make you go "Hmmm...."

Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

What ICE is calling the SACC, or Single Award Construction Contract, is a replacement of sorts for its failed use of WEXMAC TITUS. That Navy contract covered its "detention warehouses" retrofits and tent cities in Fort Bliss. @marisakabas.bsky.social wrote a crucial primer on it earlier this year.

thehandbasket.coFor ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this 'Dept. of War' programWEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
Susan W
@myfiona.bsky.social

More private prisons for children, pregnant women, working men. So far, all black and brown people. Innocent people who harm no one. Next, ICE will come for protesters.