The city agreed to a nearly $30 million contract with private security firm GardaWorld Federal Services to create giant tent citiesA 2022 report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General revealed the company hired inexperienced employees to oversee migrant children.
The report also said some children went two months without seeing a case manager. During briefings this month,They include frames, rows of cots, mess halls and attached heating and air-conditioning units. Trailer-like portable toilets were parked adjacent to the tents.The rendering of the so-called "soft-sided exterior temporary housing" had a barracks-like appearance.