Waste at Fort Bliss Camps Could Endanger Migrants: Latino Groups

Aug. 31, 2018, 5:14 PM UTC

The Trump administration wants to move immigrants into detention camps at Fort Bliss while withholding information about the Army base’s toxic waste, Latino rights and environmental groups claim in a lawsuit filed Aug. 31.

The Hispanic Federation and other groups sued the Army in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Aug. 31. The plaintiffs claim the Army violated the Freedom of Information Act by not responding to the groups’ expedited request for information about Fort Bliss, located in Texas and New Mexico.

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