Tag Archives: Karnes County
Paralegal Blocked from Karnes Detention Center After Observer Story
After reporting a 4,500-word story on her firsthand experience inside Karnes, paralegal Victoria Rossi found her access denied because of a technicality....Read More
Costly Bonds Leave Women Refugees Languishing in Detention
Asylum-seeking women and children are locked in detention facilities and charged such high immigration bonds that they can’t get out. Eventually, the mothers ...Read More
Seeking Asylum in Karnes City
An up-close-and-personal view of family detention in a for-profit lock-up in South Texas.
When women and children seeking asylum are detained in Texas, they encounter an immigration system that seems designed to discourage them at every turn....Read More
Karnes County Considers its Future in the Family Detention Business
Karnes County residents debate the expansion of an immigrant family detention facility in their community....Read More
Goodbye to the Horny Toad?
The Texas Legislature proclaimed Kenedy, Texas the Horned Lizard Capital of Texas. These days horny toads are scarce. What happened?...Read More
UPDATED: Air Pollution from Fracking in Eagle Ford Shale Threatens Health, Report Claims
A new 47-page report from Earthworks takes a sobering look at the potential health risks from fracking-related air pollution in Karnes County, one of the epicen...Read More
The Trouble with Karnes County’s ICE ‘Hotel’
This week Immigration and Custom Enforcement unveiled its new 608-bed detention facility in Karnes County, 60 miles southeast of San Antonio. The facility, whic...Read More
Is a Mine a Terrible Thing to Waste?
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When I was a kid growing up in South Texas, my parents would often take long, looping Sunday drives on the beat-up county roads near Yorktown, Goliad, Cuero, Ke...Read More
