ICE To Open Immigrant Detention Center In Texas At Site Of Former Prison

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Source: The Hill

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is slated to open a new detention center for undocumented immigrants at the site of a Texas prison that closed in 2015 after an inmate uprising.

Willacy County commissioners have approved the contract for a 1,000-bed ICE facility, the Valley Star reported on Tuesday.

The detention center will open at the site of the former Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville, about 50 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

The prison closed in March 2015, a month after rioting inmates destroyed much of the facility, the Valley Star reported. County Judge Aurelio Guerra told commissioners that officials have been trying for several years to find a contract to fill the property and boost the local economy...More..


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[duforsure]

1. They're concentration camps

And trying to hold them as long as they can , like their babies. Nazi Germany all over again from trump and the republicans.

[appalachiablue]

2. Can't help thinking of Nazi internment not so long ago. My father's

unit was at the Dachau liberation I learned recently from his memoirs. One time he spoke briefly about newly free and joyous Polish prisoners who accidentally found and drank industrial alcohol which killed them. Horrible times.

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3. "At site of" "former"