The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

The work would turn the Army base in El Paso, with more than 1 million acres and an airport, into a deportation hub with 5,000 beds, according to a

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing the state’s emergency response to the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people.

The deadly July 4 flash floods in Texas have prompted a lot of questions and soul-searching: about the failures of early-warning systems, the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service and disaster programs and the vulnerability of communities around the country to disasters worsened by climate change.

Models predicted a few inches of rain instead of the torrential onslaught that devastated Central Texas earlier this month, he said.