Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica

Dilley Immigration Processing Center

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]

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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.

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.

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Kids in ICE Detention Up 10x in Trump’s Second Term

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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.

ICE Detention Facilities - Directory

This directory provides transparency and information about ICE detention facilities across the United States.

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Children do not deserve immigration detention.

Know Your Rights: Five Things Parents Detained by ICE Should Know

Read our latest KYR, created in partnership with CLASP, on things parents should know if they are ever detained by ICE.

ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back

In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?

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Arresting legal immigrants at their immigration appointments has become part of a new and terrifyingly common strategy for immigration enforcement.