Federal Agency Closing Down Illegal Immigration Facility in Texas

Published on June 11, 2024

The U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday confirmed it will shut down a facility used by federal immigration officials in Texas that was used to house individuals who were detained after illegally crossing the U.S.–Mexico border. In a news release, the agency said that it “continually reviews the overall detention capacity and in doing so, takes action to close certain facilities that no longer provide a sufficient return on investment.” And that “includes closing the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, which is the most expensive facility in the national detention network,” the agency said. “Closing this facility will enable ICE to reallocate funding to increase the overall detention bed capacity across the system by an estimated 1,600 beds to better support operational needs.”...

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