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Largest Detention Center in U.S. Opens

IMMIGRATION

Holds up to 2,400 people.

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Hyungwon Kang/Reuters

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson opened the nation’s largest family detention center used to hold unauthorized immigrants in Dilley, Texas, on Monday. The South Texas Family Residential Center, which can hold as many as 2,400 people, was previously a camp for oilfield workers 100 miles north of the Mexican Rio...

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