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Mystery firm to build desert concentration camp where Japanese Americans were once interned

Jason Weisberger
Aug 29, 2025
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America is repeating its darkest sins: the Army just handed an obscure company $1.2 billion to turn Fort Bliss back into an internment camp. This is a national disgrace.

Between 1942 and 1945, over 120,000 Japanese Americans were ripped from their homes and imprisoned. Nearly two-thirds were United States citizens. Congress itself, in 1983, recognized th…

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