A private prison company has signed an agreement to reopen an immigrant detention facility in Texas that previously held families with children for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the business said Wednesday.

A controversial immigration detention center in South Texas used by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold families is set to re-open, following a push from President Donald Trump to carry out mass deportation operations in his first weeks in office.

The Trump administration is expected to use thousands more beds in these facilities as part of its mass deportation effort.

The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley is among the largest in the country with a capacity to detain up to 2,400 people. The Biden administration closed it last summer because it was reportedly far more expensive to operate than other U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.

The Trump administration is reopening a sprawling detention center in South Texas for migrant families facing deportation, according to the private prison contractor that runs the facility.

Noble Capital analyst Joe Gomes notes that CoreCivic (CXW) announced a new intergovernmental agreement to resume operations at the 2,400-bed

A privately-owned immigration detention facility in south Texas, designed to house families for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will reopen.

LUKE Holdings Inc., which staffs military medical facilities, announced it laid off 666 employees with a days notice under DOGE orders to cut federal staff.

Shares of Target Hospitality and CoreCivic rose after the two companies signed an agreement to resume operations using CoreCivic existing assets in Texas. Shares of Target Hospitality were 11% higher in premarket trading at $6.16. CoreCivic shares rose by 4.8% to $19.29.