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San Antonio council to discuss possible East Side ICE site during Thursday executive session
‘We are working actively with the city attorney to review options,’ Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said.
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Opponents of San Antonio ICE site plan to pack City Council’s Wednesday comment session
ICE reportedly closed a deal this week to take over a 640,000-square-foot warehouse for use as an immigrant ‘processing center.’
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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Bexar County over its program offering immigrant legal aid
The GOP culture warrior alleges the county used taxpayer money to fund its ‘radical, criminal-loving agenda.’
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ICE closes purchase of East San Antonio warehouse it will use as detention site
The federal agency will turn the building into a 1,500-bed “processing center” as the Trump administration continues to ramp up deportation raids.
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U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro calls for closure of Dilley detention center amid measles outbreak
‘In the interest of public health and safety, Dilley should be shut down immediately,’ the San Antonio Democrat said in a Monday tweet.
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5-year-old Liam Ramos back home in Minneapolis after judge orders his release
Ramos’ departure from the detention center in Dilley comes as the site experiences a measles outbreak.
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What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center
Nearly 100 demonstrators caravanned to the site southwest of San Antonio to call for the release of all children being held at immigration detention facilities.
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Federal judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, who in his ruling accused the feds of incompetence, ordered that Ramos and his father be release by Tuesday.
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Students at 13 San Antonio schools walk out Friday in support of national general strike
Several local business and one city council office also closed for the strike protesting Trump’s draconian anti-immigrant crackdown.
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ICE reportedly close to buying San Antonio warehouse to turn into new detention center
Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert said he’s ready to fight the plan and urged San Antonio officials to deny a zoning request for the facility.
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Former Dilley detention center employee describes dehumanizing culture inside
‘The residents were viewed as less than human — vermin, pests,’ said a former maintenance worker who joined the protest outside the site south of San Antonio.
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Bexar County Sheriff calls Trump ‘pseudo-dictator’ during impassioned speech
‘I’m watching folks that “kind of” wear a uniform murdering people on live TV. And then I’m watching them defend that and tell you what you saw was not murder,’ Salazar said.
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Everything we saw at the protest at the immigrant detention center in Dilley
Texas DPS troopers teargassed protesters outside the lockup south of San Antonio, even though the majority of demonstrators had already left by that point.
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Texas DPS troopers teargas protesters outside Dilley migrant detention center
State troopers also took at least two protesters into custody at the detention site southwest of San Antonio.
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Assclown Alert: Urging ICE to ‘recalibrate’ with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Abbott’s remark is a bloodless cop-out meant to distance himself from a catastrophe he’s cheered on.
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Texas activists heading to Dilley detention center to protest Trump immigration crackdown
The group is going to the South Texas Residential Center south of San Antonio to demand the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos.
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Census: Texas led U.S. in population growth in 2025, but immigration slowed
Texas’ population grew at a slower pace in 2025 than in previous years, according to new federal data. Nearly 32 million people now live in the state.
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GOP Sen. Cruz, Rep. McCaul call for investigation after federal agents fatally shoot man in Minneapolis
Other Texas Republicans have called for the Trump administration to double down on sending immigration officers to Minnesota and blamed Democrats for the violence, while others have remained silent.
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U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro to hold community rally in San Antonio voicing concerns over ICE
The rally will follow the Democratic congressman’s visit to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos is being held.
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Progressive group calls for San Antonio general strike after latest fatal ICE shooting
The demand for an Alamo City strike comes as Minneapolis residents staged the largest economic blackout in 80 years.