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DES MOINES, Iowa — Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to house up to 1,100 undocumented workers for as many as 10 nights at Camp Dodge last month, according to a government contract.

The contract showed that would have cost ICE $32,000, but the site was used for fewer days and housed about 500 people who were arrested during the Dec. 12 raid at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Iowa, Nebraska and four other states.

The contract between ICE and the Iowa National Guard was dated Dec. 4 and prohibited guard officials from discussing it without permission from ICE.

The contract shows ICE reserved access to communications support, cleaning services, beds and 1,100 sets of linens. Camp Dodge was not asked to provide food.

"We brought in our own food," said Jamie Zuieback, an ICE spokesman.

Zuieback said the contract appears to contradict claims that Camp Dodge was not informed of the size and scope of the raid.

A week after the raid, Gov. Tom Vilsack and Iowa National Guard Maj. Gen. Ron Dardis sent letters to Michael Chertoff, U.S. homeland security secretary, saying Iowa would not cooperate with federal immigration officials in the future unless there is better coordination with state officials.

Vilsack and Dardis said Iowa was given little chance to prepare for the humanitarian fallout from the raid. They complained that the "information blackout" imposed by ICE made matters worse.

The Dec. 4 agreement outlines a daily rental fee for Camp Dodge dormitories where undocumented immigrants would be housed. The contract says the federal government would only be billed for actual services provided.

Officials at Camp Dodge said they had not finished the invoice that will spell out services used by ICE. ———

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