Friday, February 26, 2021 Aid groups say ICE stopped jailing immigrant families at two South Texas sites, but they're still open Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 1:27 PM Wikimedia Commons Immigrant-rights groups have long called for the closure for the private family detention center in Karnes City, south of San Antonio. The government has stopped using two private prison facilities south of San Antonio for detaining immigrant families, instead turning them into temporary stop-offs where asylum seekers get medical checks, immigrant-aid groups said. However, that transition by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn't go far to reverse the hardline immigration policies of the Trump administration, those groups argue.