The Department of Homeland Security opened the largest immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas this week. The privately owned facility is designed to house 2,400 people—mostly women and children—who…
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…center in Dilley. In August 2016, ICE extended the Eloy contract again, contracting to operate the Dilley facility until 2021. The OIG report concluded by recommending that ICE creates written…
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…The 2,400-bed South Texas Family Residential Center (STFRC) in Dilley, known as “baby jail” or “Dilley” to advocates, opened in early 2015. Its use as a family detention center was…
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On Friday, a Texas judge extended the temporary restraining order preventing Texas from licensing the Dilley detention center as a childcare facility. Dilley is one of two privately operated detention…
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…center, in Dilley, Texas and invalidating the license currently held by Karnes County Residential Center in Karnes City, Texas. In response, the State of Texas filed an appeal of the…
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…detention center in Dilley, Texas must overcome in order to obtain a meaningful day in court. For example, many of the asylum-seeking women and their children in Dilley experience significant…
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…south Texas. The facility we visited in Dilley, Texas, under the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is located on a flatland of beige—white rocks and brown mud and…
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…Grande Legal Aid, Inc. (TRLA) from the controversial South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Her banishment stemmed from what ICE called an inappropriately facilitated mental health evaluation by…
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…Texas Family Residential Center (“Dilley”) in Dilley, Texas, and the Karnes County Residential Center (“Karnes”) in Karnes City, Texas in 2014. The facilities were the Obama administration’s response to an…
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December marks the three-year anniversary of the opening of the country’s largest family detention center for non-citizen mothers and their minor children located in Dilley, Texas. Referred to as a…
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