The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is scheduled to reopen under a renewed agreement between a private contractor, local city officials, and federal immigration authorities.

The centre, originally constructed in 2014, has a capacity of approximately two thousand four hundred beds and is intended to accommodate migrant families.

The centre previously housed families during the administrations of two former presidents but was closed in mid-twenty twenty-four following a broad move to phase out family detention.

The reopened facility will resume operations under a contract extending at least through March twenty thirty.

The private operator estimates annual revenues of around one hundred and eighty million dollars from the facility.

Operations will include residential services and medical and legal access for detainees.

The reopening represents the restoration of a family detention model that had been discontinued in twenty twenty-one.

Family detention had previously been suspended on account of operating costs and policy shifts under a successor administration.

The resumption occurs within a broader expansion of detention infrastructure, including renewed use of other similar facilities and new contractual arrangements for bed capacity in multiple states.

The facility in Dilley is located roughly eighty-five miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border town of Laredo and includes features such as residential units, recreational space, medical and educational facilities, and shared services.

Delineated under court oversight agreements that affect the detention of minors, the use of the site continues to attract attention due to its role in holding families, and its past record that includes incidents drawing national scrutiny.

Protocols governing family detention, including statutory and judicial limits on the duration and conditions of child detention, remain applicable across federal immigration enforcement operations.