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Detention centers by any other name

11:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Politics · Comments Off

7 Feb 2006

300px-Camp_delta.jpgAnd a familiar name to those sensitive to topics such as “reconstruction” in Iraq and botched hurricane relief, among other things. I mean if you are going to be detained in a modern-day Angel Island, it might as well be a name you know and distrust: Halliburton The guys who brought us “Camp Delta” at Guantanamo.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that has been criticized for overcharging the Pentagon for its work in Iraq.

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