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ICE to hold inmates in new Willacy detention center County enters into contract
By brownsvilleherald.com- Fernando Del Valle
Published: 07/03/2018

RAYMONDVILLE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is coming back to town.

Yesterday, Willacy County commissioners reviewed a contract with ICE to hold inmates at a new 1,000-bed detention center here.

County Judge Aurelio Guerra said commissioners reviewed the contact to determine whether it might include changes made after they approved the pact in a June 25 meeting.

The detention center will open at the site of the former 3,000-bed Willacy County Correctional Center which shut down in March 2015, laying off 400 employees and slashing a third of the county’s $8.1 million general fund budget.

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