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Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:42 PM Jul 25

'Irony is thick': ICE jail contract given to man convicted of using undocumented workers [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/his-former-company-got-caught-employing-undocumented-workers-now-hes-profiting-off-an-im/

'Irony is thick': ICE jail contract given to man convicted of using undocumented workers

Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica
July 25, 2025 8:28AM

On Monday, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded a massive new contract to build the nation’s largest migrant detention camp on the Fort Bliss military base, a facility that will play a key role in the Trump administration’s deportation plans.

Unmentioned was that one of the subcontractors slated to work on the project, Disaster Management Group, is owned by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty in 2019 to a scheme to hire undocumented workers and conceal them from immigration authorities. Albers is a big-time Republican donor who has spent time at Mar-a-Lago.

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