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A private prison company with a troubled past looks to reopen an immigration detention facility in Texas

June 9, 2017Justice

The Department of Homeland Security has called for more immigration detention facilities to open along the US-Mexico border. And negotiations between a private prison company and the government have already begun in the Rio Grande Valley.

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