A private jail company has signed an agreement to reopen the immigrant detention facility in Texas in which the U.S. Families were held with children for immigration and customs enforcement, the business said Wednesday.
Nashville -based Corcivic announced an agreement with Ice and Dilli that Laredo and Mexico are located about 85 miles (135 km) north of the border.
The center was used during the administration of President Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s first President. But President B Biden detained the family in 2021, and Corrsivic said the facility came in 2024.
“We accept that we expect the Housing Families” at Dilli, Corcivic spokesman Ryan Gustin told the Associated Press.
Korasivic said in a statement that “the facility was intended for the ICE in 2014, so that the appropriate setting for the family population was given.” The new contract lasts at least until March 2030.
Ice officers did not respond to the messages demanding information on who would be kept in the deli immediately and how soon.
Agency-Jen most privately-run detained facilities, its own processing centers and immigrants in local jail and jails-entered the year with zero facilities towards families, who arrived about one-third on the southern border last year.
The Trump administration has expanded the detention of migrants to military stations, including two Naval stations in Cuba, by flights outside the military establishments at El Paso, Texas, as it promises to increase collective deportation.
Private detention contractors with ICE, including Coracivic and Geo Group, say they offer less expensive options than miles for immigrant detention services and transport arrays, including international flights.
During Trump’s first administration, he authorized the use Military bases to detain immigrant childrenIncluding Army installations at Fort Bliss and Goodfello Air Force Base in Texas.
In 2014, Obama temporarily relied on the military base to detain immigrant children, while thousands of central American families were arrested by a privately -run family detention centers crossing the border illegally.
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