A 3,000-Child Detention Camp

In the summer of 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly published a federal procurement notice most Americans never saw. The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is asking contractors to design, build, and run an "emergency intake facility" — a campus capable of holding up to 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children at a single site. In this episode of The Raid, host John Carlos Frey investigates the government's case for a mega-facility — surge capacity, efficiency, and faster case processing — and weighs it against the history of similar facilities in Homestead, Florida and Tornillo, Texas, which held thousands of children before closing under legal and political pressure. The Raid lays out the facts the government disputes. https://samsearch.co/gov-explore/federal/emergency-intake-facility-and-wrap-around-services-for-unaccompanied-alien-child/f54069e482d5 https://oig.hhs.gov/reports/all/operational-challenges-within-orr-and-the-orr-emergency-intake-site-at-fort-bliss-hindered-case-management-for-children https://theraidpodcast.org/ Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants on this program are solely their own and do not necessarily represent those of the distributor of the program and any person or entity affiliated with said distributor ("distributor's affiliates"). The distributor and distributor's affiliates are not responsible for, and shall not be liable for, the statements and opinions expressed by the host or participants, or for any content that appears on the program. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.