The federal government has awarded a $1.26 billion contract to build and operate an immigrant detention center tent facility at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base in Texas. 

According to a U.S. Department of Defense contract notice, the work will turn the base, located in El Paso, into a deportation hub that will include 5,000 beds, reports Bloomberg News on Tuesday.

The base features more than 1 million acres of land and has an airport, and once completed, the detention center would be the largest in the United States. 

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