A controversial immigration detention center in South Texas used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold families is set to re-open, following a push from President Donald Trump to carry out mass deportation operations in his first weeks in office.

Last year, Trump’s top immigration adviser, Tom Homan, said he would accept an offer from Texas state leaders to use a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a staging area for mass deportations. Since then, key parties have been largely mum about plans for the property, which the Texas General Land office purchased last fall.

The Trump administration is reopening a sprawling detention center in South Texas for migrant families facing deportation, according to the private prison contractor that runs the facility.

The Trump administration has resumed family detention of immigrants in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause.

The for-profit facilities in Karnes County and Dilley were shuttered as they faced complaints about human rights records.

Two controversial immigration detention facilities in South Texas are being reopened for the detention and deportation of migrant women and families, officials tell Border Report.

The Trump administration has resumed family detention of immigrants, a legal nonprofit said, reigniting a controversial practice largely curtailed under the Biden administration. Fourteen families with children as young as 1 year old are being held in a detention facility in Karnes County,