A contractor providing staffing for five Customs and Border Protection migrant camps along the southern border has laid off 666 people, apparently in response to a continuing decline in illegal border crossings.
LUKE Holdings Inc. of Rockledge, Fla., dismissed employees from sites in Del Rio, Donna, Eagle Pass, Laredo and El Paso, according to a notice Wednesday to the Texas Workforce Commission .
Their last day was Feb. 27, when workers received letters from the company saying the federal government had mandated the immediate firings as part of a contract modification…