The South Texas Family Residential Center (also called Dilley Immigration Processing Center) is an immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas. First opened in December 2014, under Barack Obama, it has a capacity of 2,400 and is intended to detain mainly women and children from Central America.[2] United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) closed the detention center in June 2024, citing cost savings to add more beds in other facilities as the Biden administration implemented new border restrictions. It reopened the following year, in 2025.[3]
Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids
The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become the nation’s largest hub of deportation flights.
ICE Detention Trends | Vera Institute of Justice
Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subjects hundreds of thousands of people to civil immigration detention—a practice that is unjust, inhumane, and completely unnecessary. It does so under a veil of secrecy, sharing only limited, often error-prone statistics with the public. ICE’s failure to regularly release accurate, complete, and accessible data to the public enables it to operate its multi-billion-dollar detention network with impunity and little oversight.
2025 Prairieland ICE detention center incident
On the evening of July 4, 2025, a civil disturbance and shooting occurred at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, United States, during one of a series of protests against mass deportations and mass incarcerations carried out during Donald Trump's second presidency.
Opinion | I'm a U.S. senator. Here’s why Delaney Hall immigration detention center must be closed.
Sen. Andy Kim: The Trump administration is trying to break immigrants’ spirits in places like Delaney Hall. We can’t let that happen.
‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish
Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center — ProPublica
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by those locked inside, with few ways to get help.
Opinion | 3 ways you can stand against the cruelty of family immigration detention
Elora Mukherjee: Children held in Dilley detention center face panic attacks, malnutrition and suicidal ideation. We must call on our representatives to stop the cruelty.
New ICE facility to hold families, unaccompanied minors could open in Louisiana next week
A new facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, may begin receiving undocumented families with children, local officials and immigrant rights advocates say.
“Warehousing Human Beings”
Former immigration judge Andrea Sáenz and American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the conditions at Delaney Hall and other ICE detention centers across the U.S.
Toolkit: Lost in the US immigration detention system — Freedom for Immigrants
Below are some scenarios where your friend or loved one might be depending on how they interacted with immigration enforcement:
ICE Has Placed a Record 600 Immigrant Kids in Federal Shelters This Year — ProPublica
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
Advocates, watchdog launch investigation into ICE’s response to hunger strike at Folkston detention center
FOLKSTON, GA – Today, American Oversight, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta launched an investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s)…
Operation Metro Surge
Operation Metro Surge was an operation by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with the stated purpose of apprehending undocumented immigrants and deporting them. Beginning in December 2025, it initially targeted the Twin Cities, and later expanded to all of Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called it "the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out".
Children detained by ICE
And children at immigration courts
ICE detention centers: Dilley, TX
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Opinion | 3 ways you can stand against the cruelty of family immigration detention
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica
Dilley Immigration Processing Center
New ICE facility to hold families, unaccompanied minors could open in Louisiana next week
A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids
Unaccompanied immigrant minors face growing hurdles from the Trump administration crackdown
Opinion | Trump slashed our funding — and the only chance for thousands of kids to get a fair shot in immigration court
Opinion | 3 ways you can stand against the cruelty of family immigration detention
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.