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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Alejandro Serrano

Feds are opening more detention centers in Texas as Trump administration steps up deportations

The South Texas Family Residential Center is an immigrant detention center in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.
The South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigrant detention center in Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio, is being reopened to hold migrant families facing deportation. (Credit: Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune)

After watching news reports of seemingly random immigration raids and hearing White House officials encourage undocumented immigrants to self-deport, a Venezuelan family decided to heed the government’s advice and leave the United States for Canada a few weeks ago.

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