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Texas: Dimmit County Officials Reject Proposed Immigrant Detention Center

HeadlineJun 28, 2016

Meanwhile, officials in Dimmit County, Texas, about an hour north of the Mexico border, have rejected a proposed 500-bed family detention center. Their vote came Monday at a packed meeting, where residents spoke against a plan to use a former “man camp” for oil workers to hold women and children who have fled violence in Central America. Dimmit County’s vote comes after a similar rejection earlier this month by officials in nearby Jim Wells County. Commissioners there voted not to join a bid with federal officials and British security firm Serco, which has faced scandals at its family detention centers in Australia and lobbied heavily to enter the lucrative U.S. market.

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