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FILE - Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades, on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Migrants languish in U.S. detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits

By Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

U.S. Soldiers, assigned to Joint Task Force Southern Border, prepare to sling load AV’s LOCUST Laser Weapon System integrated on an Infantry Squad Vehicle to a CH-47 Chinook at Fort Bliss, Texas, July 16, 2025. JTF-SB executes full scale, agile, and all-domain operations in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to protect the territorial integrity of the United States and achieve 100% operational control of the southern border. [Credit: U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Rynishia Lewis]

Barracks used by troops in southern-border surge had raw sewage, broken air conditioners

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This Aug. 7, 2025, satellite image shows construction of large white tents for a new immigrant detention center at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army base outside El Paso, Texas. When completed, the $1.2 billion facility is expected to hold up to 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation and will be the largest such facility in the United States. (Planet Labs via AP)

Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

By Michael Biesecker and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss, Texas, Sept. 9, 2014. The military says a solider has died and five others have been hurt in the crash of a tactical vehicle at Fort Bliss, Friday, July 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)

Vehicle crash at Fort Bliss in Texas kills 1 soldier and injures 5 others

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A soldier stands outside tents at Fort Bliss' Doña Ana Village where Afghan refugees are being housed in Chaparral, N.M., Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. The Biden administration provided the first public look inside the U.S. military base where Afghans airlifted out of Afghanistan are screened, amid questions about how the government is caring for the refugees and vetting them. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Alleged assault of female Fort Bliss service member by Afghan evacuees prompts FBI investigation

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this March 30, 2021, photo, young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. On Monday, June 21, 2021, more than a dozen immigrant children described difficult conditions, feelings of isolation and a desperation to get out of emergency facilities set up by the Biden administration to cope with a rise in the arrival of minors on the southwest border. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) ** FILE **

Federal worker: ‘We are traumatizing’ immigrant kids

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Israeli air defense system Iron Dome takes out rockets fired from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, Saturday, May 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ** FILE **

U.S. Army testing Israeli anti-missile system

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

1st female enlisted soldier to be Army Ranger shares story

By RON BARNETT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday April 27, 2018, file photo, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens to a question during a meeting at the Pentagon, in Washington. The Pentagon is preparing to build temporary camps for immigrants at two military bases, Mattis said Sunday, June 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Migrant detainees to be housed at 2 bases in Texas

By BY LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

CORRECTS DATE TO JUNE 21, NOT 23 - In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 photo, migrant families rest from their travels to Matamoros, Mexico, along Gateway International Bridge which connects to Brownsville, Texas, as they seek asylum in the United States. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Latest: US official: Fort Bliss to house detained families

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Staff Sgt. Ricardo Branch was punished for emailing his superiors about a possible leak.

Ricardo Branch, Army sergeant, faces discharge for email to brass about classified data

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This image provided by the U.S. Army shows Maj. Gen. Dana J.H. Pittard. The Pentagon has reprimanded an Pittard for steering a defense contract to a firm run by two former classmates at West Point, according to a published report. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Army reprimanded general for alleged ethical lapse

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Police officers guard an entrance to the Beaumont Army Medical Center/El Paso VA campus during the search for a gunman Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, Victor Calzada)

‘Active shooter’ reported at El Paso VA military hospital

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1 killed, 3 injured in chopper crash in New Mexico

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Oktoberfest to continue at Fort Bliss

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At Army post, a general yields to buffalo soldiers

By DAVID BURGE - Associated Press