Dilley's ICE Facility
One Year In: Proven Results!
After reopening in 2025, the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley delivered exactly what we thought!
- Families were held for extended periods without hearings.
- Children lost weight, stopped speaking, and showed clear signs of trauma.
- Medical care was delayed, denied, or reduced to paperwork while infections, chronic conditions, and pregnancy complications went untreated.
- Multiple reports and lawsuits allege that guards forced compliance through intimidation, retaliation, and constant threat of family separation.
- Legal access was obstructed, and mental health care was absent in practice. No corrective action followed.
CoreCivic's facility demonstrated that deterrence through suffering works best when neglect is casual, accountability is optional, and cruelty is routine. One year in and abuse has ALREADY become the product!
Family Detention Fun
Scenic drives with the other detainees under wide open skies that you will never see again. A city that just keeps forgetting all our cruelty.
Lack of Civic Pride?
Are you rooted in racism and resistance to accountability and change of any sort? Do you have any ripped up flags? You will fit right in!
For-Profit Incarceration
Incarceration and neglect. As long as we get paid, we will "follow orders" no matter what the cost to the detainees.
Did You Know?
In 2017, Dilley's CoreCivic facility had a 20,000-gallon sewage spill! Funny enough, the wastewater operator who had reported the spill later alleged that he had been forced to resign.
SOURCE: Dilley Aguas
In Dilley, we love transparency and kindness just as long as it’s theoretical or pretend and does not interrupt the collection of our blood money.
Community History
1910–1920 — La Matanza
La Matanza near Dilley was exactly what the name says, The Slaughter. Ethnic cleansing.
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1940–1960 — Bracero Program
The Bracero Program in Dilley was cheap labor dressed up as international cooperation.
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2014–2024 — Detention Center Abuse
The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley became nationally known for abusing migrant families.
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2025 — Camp Reopened
The detention facility reopened under renewed scrutiny.
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1910–1920 — La Matanza
La Matanza near Dilley was exactly what the name says, The Slaughter. In the late 18th century, Spanish colonial forces carried out a mass killing of Indigenous people along the Frio River corridor. This was not a battle. It was a deliberate slaughter aimed at extermination or forced removal. Men, women, and children were killed as part of Spain’s frontier strategy to clear land, break resistance, and make the region safe for missions, ranching, and imperial control. The Spanish were not poetic or symbolic when they named the place. They were documenting what happened.
What followed was silence. As Spanish rule gave way to Mexican control and then Anglo settlement, the massacre faded from official memory while the land was repurposed and renamed. No monument, no apology, no reckoning. Just erased people and a buried crime under the foundations of South Texas settlement. La Matanza at Dilley is not legend, exaggeration, or metaphor.
1940–1960 — The Bracero Program
The Bracero Program in Dilley was cheap labor dressed up as international cooperation. Mexican men were brought in to work the onion fields and surrounding agriculture under contracts that promised fair wages, housing, and humane treatment. What they got instead was long days of brutal physical labor in South Texas heat, cramped and often unsanitary camps, wage theft through deductions, and near total control by growers who knew the workers had no leverage. If a bracero complained, he was blacklisted or sent back across the border. Hunger, exhaustion, and humiliation were baked into the system.
Dilley agriculture expanded because labor costs were crushed and accountability was nonexistent. The town prospered while the workers remained invisible, disposable, and interchangeable. When the program ended in 1964, there was no reckoning. No back pay. No acknowledgment of stolen wages or broken contracts. The braceros left worn down and empty handed, and Dilley moved on without them. The Bracero Program in Dilley was not a partnership. It was state sanctioned exploitation that treated human beings as tools, used them up, and discarded them like trash once they were no longer needed.
.2014–2024 — Detention Center Abuse
The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, run by CoreCivic, became nationally known for abusing migrant families under the cover of “civil detention.” Women and children were held for months despite asylum law requiring prompt processing. Medical care was delayed or denied. Children experienced extreme weight loss, untreated illnesses, and psychological distress. Guards used intimidation and arbitrary discipline. Mothers reported being threatened with separation from their children if they complained. Some of this was overcrowding chaos. and some simple neglect inside a government facility..
2025 — Camp Reopened
The ICE detention center reopened despite documented abuse and public criticism. Money never tasted so good and there is always room for more...