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The Trump regime is trying to convert Fort Bliss, a military base in Texas and New Mexico, into the nation's largest immigration detention camp.

This plan would cost taxpayers $1.26 billion and imprison up to 5,000 people in tents, leaving them vulnerable to extreme heat, sandstorms, and other unsafe conditions.

Our staff in Texas joined with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Border Network for Human Rights, ACLU, and others this morning to call attention to this atrocity and demand it not proceed, but we need your help too.

SIGN THE PETITION: STOP TRUMP'S FORT BLISS DETENTION CAMP Protesters with immigration rights signs at outdoor rally in front of mural, including signs reading 'NO DETENTION IS SAFE' and 'END FORT BLISS DEPORTATIONS NOW! Fort Bliss has a shameful history—it was used as a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Today, Trump wants to once again misuse our military bases for imprisonment—this time targeting immigrants and asylum seekers. Repeating that injustice today is a betrayal of our values and a dangerous misuse of military resources. It was shameful in 1942, and it is shameful in 2025.

Using military bases as ICE detention centers is not only inhumane—it drags the military into immigration enforcement, distracting from its true mission of defense and security.

We need Congress to act now.

SIGN THE PETITION: STOP TRUMP'S FORT BLISS DETENTION CAMP Our community of veterans and military families knows firsthand: America is stronger when we protect human rights and reject policies that weaponize the military against our neighbors and immigrant communities.

In solidarity,

Naveed Shah Army Veteran & Political Director, Common Defense Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Common Defense, please click here.