东蒙大拿营地，最新也是最大的新的移民拘留中心在周日正式开放后，受到了移民倡导者的批评。
抗议者在周末欢迎该设施的开放。
拘留中心位于德克萨斯州的布利斯堡，目前可以容纳1000名移民，官员表示最终可以容纳5000人。
“如果他们不打算关闭营地，我们要求政府做到他们所说的，”Las美洲移民倡导中心执行主任玛丽莎·利蒙·加尔萨告诉埃尔帕索ABC子公司KVIA。“至少，我们需要接触那些有正当程序的人，他们应该有机会接触律师。”
周一，一名联邦法官听取了这一批评律师的论点对于佛罗里达州拘留中心被称为“鳄鱼阿卡特兹”的被拘留者来说，他们说他们缺乏适当的律师服务，并且在没有任何正式刑事或移民指控的情况下被关押。
民主党众议员维罗妮卡·埃斯科瓦尔(Veronica Escobar)周一参观了新的得克萨斯州拘留中心，谈到该设施的价格时说，“我希望你想想，如果这笔钱花在社区，如果花在埃尔帕索儿童的儿童保健上，如果花在埃尔帕索儿童的普及学前教育上，如果花在埃尔帕索安人的医疗保健上，它可以在埃尔帕索做多少好事。”
“这笔钱可以为埃尔帕索安人做大量的好事，但它却被特朗普政府用来资助大规模驱逐出境，”她说。
“让人们明白我们不是在谈论园丁或管家，这很重要，”得克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·科宁说，他上周参观了该设施。“这些人没有出席法院命令的听证会。不存在正当程序问题。他们没有在这里的合法权利。”
国土安全部助理部长特里西亚·麦克劳克林周一在一份声明中说:“在特朗普总统的领导下，我们正在以最快的速度努力寻找具有成本效益的创新方法，以履行美国人民对大规模驱逐非法犯罪外国人的授权。”“这个美丽的大法案提供了历史性的资金，帮助我们执行这项任务，特别是通过确保足够的拘留能力，以维持平均每天10万非法外国人和8万个新的冰床。”
“布利斯堡设施将提供传统冰拘留设施所提供的一切，包括获得法律代表和法律图书馆，获得探视，娱乐空间，医疗空间和营养均衡的膳食，”麦克劳克林说。"它还为残疾人、饮食和宗教信仰提供必要的便利."
Opening of new migrant detention center in Texas met with protests
Camp East Montana, the latest and largest of thenew migrant detention centersopening across the country, has been met with criticism from immigration advocates after officially opening Sunday.
Protesters greeted the opening of the facility over the weekend.
The detention center, on the grounds of Texas' Fort Bliss, can currently house 1,000 migrants, with officials saying it can eventually expand to hold 5,000.
"We are demanding that this administration do what they say they're going to do if they're not going to close the camps," Marisa Limon Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, told El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA. "At a minimum, we need access to people who have due process and should have access to attorneys."
The criticism came as a federal judge on Monday heardarguments from lawyersfor detainees at the Florida detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz," who say they lack proper attorney access and are being held without any formal criminal or immigration charges against them.
Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar, who toured the new Texas detention center Monday, said of the facility's price tag, "I want you to think about how much good that money could do in El Paso if it were spent on the community, if it were spent on access to child care for El Paso kids, if it were spent on universal pre-K for El Paso kids, if it were spent on health care for El Pasoans."
"There is a tremendous amount of good that that money could do for El Pasoans, but it is instead being used to fund mass deportation by the Trump administration," she said.
"It's important for people to understand we are not talking gardeners or housekeepers," said Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who visited the facility last week. "These are people who didn't show up to court-ordered hearings. There is no due process concern. They have no legal right to be here."
"Under President Trump's leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Monday. "The One Big Beautiful Bill has provided historic funding to help us carry out this mandate, especially by securing enough detention capacity to maintain an average daily population of 100,000 illegal aliens and 80,000 new ICE beds."
"The Fort Bliss Facility will offer everything a traditional ICE detention facility offers, including access to legal representation and a law library, access to visitation, recreational space, medical treatment space and nutritionally balanced meals," McLaughlin said. "It also provides necessary accommodations for disabilities, diet, and religious beliefs."
