Jonathan Blitzer

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The Bulwark Daily · Jonathan Blitzer: Our New Internment Camps · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

But like, I couldn't find anything.

Certainly some of the subcontractors involved, and that's what happens here too, is there's the kind of general contractor and then there's a whole host of subcontractors.

So you've got a subcontractor who's in charge of different, of building out different aspects of this facility and all, and, you know,

July and August of 2025.

And then you've got a bunch of contractors who provide guard services, medical services, food services, to the extent that to a lot of the detainees there, they're often telling me, I don't even see ICE officials here that much.

I'm mostly just seeing these independent, these contractors who have different briefs at the facility, but who seem mostly unprepared and uninterested and just kind of float past us.

And so some of the subcontractors, some of the companies involved with subcontracting different services at the facility did have more overt ties

to the Trump administration to campaign donations and so on.

But basically, one of the strange things about how this whole thing played out was one of the other companies that placed a bid last summer for this job filed a complaint with the government saying, okay, acquisition logistics won this contract.

There are all kinds of obvious flaws with their proposal.

They don't comply with two of the requirements for this proposal.

I mean, this stuff is a little technical.

ICE is doing such great work.

We want to make sure ICE is able to do the great work.

You look at these proposals and it's like a different language.

I had to share it with experts who worked in government to parse some of the language and all into a person say to me, okay, acquisition logistics proposal is this boilerplate nonsense.

There's nothing distinguishing about it.

Some of these other companies actually

you know, file a complaint with the government.

And typically what's supposed to happen is when another contractor, you know, complains or alleges that there's some sort of irregularity in the contracting process, you know, that's supposed to halt the process.

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