Secretive plans for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center on the coast of Oregon have the facility’s prospective builders worried it will not meet the agency’s own bare minimum care requirements for detainees.
Previously unreported federal contracting documents obtained by NOTUS reveal how contractors are particularly skeptical that the planned 200-person detention center in Newport, Oregon — a town of 10,000 people just over two hours southwest of Portland — is adequately sized.
ICE acknowledged during an Oct. 31 tour of the site, which currently operates as a U.S. Coast Guard facility, that it is a “small area,” according to a transcript NOTUS obtained.