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

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.

Three months after reacting with giddiness that Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign promise would make them boatloads of money, private prison executives are as optimistic as ever ― and they’re licking their lips at a potentially massive immigration enforcement budget from the Republican-controlled Congress.

Four years after the Biden administration stopped detaining migrant children, a private prison contractor says it has reached an agreement with ICE to reopen the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley,