El PASO — There have been dozens of calls to 911 from the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss including calls after two men who died in custody in January. KTEP News under the Open Records Act obtained call logs, information and audio of the calls.
The calls offer at look at who is held at the tent facility and the kind of medical emergencies often happening inside at Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss
There were 50 calls from the ICE detention facility in the span of about two month from December 1 through February 2.
The calls involve a range of medical emergencies suffered by the people held in the tent facility known as Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
Several staff member calling for help seemed to have little to no information readily available about the people in their care at the detention camp. Medically fragile patients include a pregnant woman, man with late stage lung cancer, and an 80-year old detainee who fell and hit his head while showering at the tent facility.
All raise questions about why people who are physically or medically fragile are held at the camp when ICE has alternatives to detention that have been used in the past They including ankle monitors.
One 911 call call raises questions about detainee safety at the facility. In mid-January a 20-year-old man was stabbed the cut was so deep the staff member told the dispatcher "you see tendon" in his hand.
This is just a sample. Listen to the calls yourself.
