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Saturday, July 26, 2025

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.
Two people with direct knowledge of the award and two familiar with the company told ProPublica that Disaster Management Group would help build the new facility, receiving a substantial chunk of the more than $1.2 billion the government has allocated for the project. "The idea that you could use illegal labor and then sell services to ICE, the irony is thick," said Scott Shuchart, a former official with the Department of Homeland Security and ...

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NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. "The irony is thick," said a former DHS official.

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) Jul 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM

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Once a crook....always a crook; exanple? Donald Trump! Is anyone pretending this is a surprise? MAGAmorons?, Republicans? Russian Moles?

#1 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-26 10:57 AM | Reply

So he's a criminal, why isn't he in prison?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-26 12:07 PM | Reply

Government contractors who lack consistent morals? That's almost as shocking as water being wet.

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-07-26 12:41 PM | Reply

"Government contractors who lack consistent morals?"

When other countries use them we refer to them as mercebaries.

#4 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-26 01:01 PM | Reply

Anyone who posts here pretending surprise is either MAGAfilth, Corporate loving Republicans or Evangelical RACISTs? (Pick one)

#5 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-26 01:55 PM | Reply

People like this should be subject to a Federal Government Contract Death Penalty.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-26 02:14 PM | Reply

"The idea that you could use illegal labor and then sell services to ICE, the irony is thick"

Not that ironic. Under the 13th Amendment, the detainees can be used as slave labor.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-26 02:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Follow the money, just follow the goddamn money.

#8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-27 06:13 AM | Reply

Follow the money, just follow the goddamn money.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-27 06:13 AM | Reply

"Albers is a big-time Republican donor who has spent time at Mar-a-Lago."

Very important sentence that explains the entire paragraph and everything we really need to know.

#10 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-28 07:08 AM | Reply

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp
www.propublica.org

Yup, the very same Nathan Albers.

#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-28 07:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

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