ICE will now target illegal migrant families for deportation — and is reopening 2 detention centers to hold them
By Jennie Taer
Published March 6, 2025, 5:20 p.m. ET
The Trump administration is expanding its mass deportation effort to include families in the country illegally — and ICE is opening two previously-shuttered Texas detention centers to hold them, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to The Post Thursday.
The families targeted by this new wave of President Trump’s mass deportation raids “all … have final deportation orders from federal judges,” said DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
“This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law,” she added.
The policy was first reported by NBC News.
The migrant families will soon be housed in Karnes and Dilley Detention Center, which will both be “retrofitted” to hold them, according to McLaughlin.
Dilley, which is located about 75 miles southwest of San Antonio and had a capacity of 2,400 detainees, was ICE’s largest detention center when it was in operation.
Last year, the Biden admin closed the massive facility, saying it was “the most expensive facility in the national detention network.”
ICE said at the time that private prison contractor-run detention facility would be replaced with 1,600 existing detention beds made available in the region, explaining that it was a cheaper option.
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