City of San Antonio expected to discuss possible lawsuit for ICE detention facility on East Side
City leaders will weigh legal action as ICE plans a 1,500-person processing facility and renovations continue under a $17.3 million contract.
- On Tuesday, the City of San Antonio filed a federal lawsuit to halt conversion of an East Side warehouse into an ICE detention facility, alleging violations of the National Environmental Policy Act.
- City officials pursued legal action after months of unsuccessful attempts to obtain environmental and development plans from the Department of Homeland Security, which ignored five letters sent since February.
- The planned facility could hold up to 1,500 people in a 640,000-square-foot warehouse, with a federal contract awarded to GardaWorld Federal Services growing to $61.8 million to renovate the site.
- San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and most City Council members support the lawsuit to force environmental reviews, though Councilman Marc Whyte and Councilwoman Misty Spears criticized it as "political theater" at taxpayers' expense.
- Similar legal challenges have prompted federal authorities to reconsider or cancel detention projects in other cities, though Whyte argued the lawsuit will merely delay rather than stop the facility.
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Austin, Oct. 13 (EFE).- The city of San Antonio, Texas, sued Donald Trump's government on Tuesday to stop the conversion of a warehouse into an immigration detention center with capacity for up to 1,500 people, denouncing that federal authorities have not assessed its environmental consequences.The lawsuit, filed before [...] La entrada The City of San Antonio sues Trump to stop a detention center in a warehouse was first published in HolaNews.
San Antonio sues to block plans to convert warehouse into an ICE detention center
By Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune October 13, 2026 The city of San Antonio has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to block a proposed immigration detention facility, arguing the federal agency failed to review the plan’s environmental impact. DHS paid $66.1 million for a 640,000-square-foot commercial warehouse in San Antonio earlier this year.…
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