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immigration detention: The GEO Group said that its 1,000-bed detention facility will be in Conroe, north of Houston, and will open by the end of next year, according to Metro News. The facility coincides with President Donald Trump's promised expansion of immigration detention, part of a larger crackdown on immigrants in the country illegally that includes detaining people seeking asylum while they go through immigration proceedings.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement already has a record of more than 41,000 detainees. Her name is Silky Shah, not Shaw.A corrected version of the story is below Texas getting first immigrant centre built under Trump Private prison company GEO Group has announced a 110 million federal contract to build the first new immigrant detention centre under the Trump administration By MEREDITH HOFFMANAssociated PressA private prison company announced Thursday it has won a 110-million federal contract to build in Texas the first new immigrant detention centre under the Trump administration. The agency has also identified an additional 21,000 unused beds that it plans to use for detention, according to a memo reported Wednesday by the Washington Post. GEO, ICE's second-largest private prison contractor, has approximately 3,000 empty beds nationwide, according to a February investor call. That memo notes that ICE will be unable to secure additional detention capacity until funding has been identified. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.