Dilley Immigration Processing Center
Family Residential Center
a.k.a. South Texas Family Residential Center
- Operator
- private operator
- Contractor
- CoreCivic
- Location
- Dilley, Frio, Texas
- Capacity
- 2400 min; ~867 ADP
- Opened
- 2014 (reopened 2025)
- Status
- Active
Dilley Immigration Processing Center is a family immigration-detention center in Dilley, Texas, operated by CoreCivic. The ICE List documents it as a concentration camp - a site of civil immigration detention operated by, or under contract to, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Overview
- Designation: Family Residential Center
- Operator: private operator
- Contractor: CoreCivic
- Location: Dilley, Frio, Texas
- Capacity: 2400 min; ~867 ADP
- Opened: 2014 (reopened 2025)
- Status: Active
Documented conditions and incidents
Family detention; reopened March 2025 under 5-yr, ~$180M/yr CoreCivic contract (facility owned by Target Hospitality); ProPublica investigation Feb 2026 documented child mistreatment; 5-yo US citizen Liam Conejo Ramos held Jan 2026.
Sources
- en.wikipedia.org
- corecivic.com