Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility

The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas

March 6, 2026Updated: March 6, 2026

By MORGAN LEE, RYAN J. FOLEY and MICHAEL BIESECKER