US TO OPEN FOURTH DETENTION CENTER FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES CROSSING MEXICO BORDER (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 13:17

Detained children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) announced Tuesday that a fourth center to house families apprehended while crossing the south-west border into the US will eventually hold 2,400 people inTexas.

ICE will operate the residential facility when it opens in November in Dilley, Texas, about 70 miles south-west of San Antonio. It will house immigrant adults with children caught entering the country illegally.

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