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Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation's largest immigration detention complex, it didn't turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.

Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a sma…

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