active — Project on legal pause as of late April 2026 — NEPA litigation following Maryland federal judge precedent; San Antonio City Council passed 9-2 zoning restrictions Apr 17; ~100 protested April 25 at facility; County passed 4-1 opposition; original 8-2 moratorium vote held. UPDATE (reported May 15, 2026): the 'pause' is effectively over — ICE confirms the Oakmont 410 warehouse is still moving forward, with the Washington Post reporting an early-2027 operational target. The Maryland NEPA injunction does NOT bind Texas because Trump v. CASA (2025) made such injunctions jurisdictional (Fifth vs. Fourth Circuit); Commissioner Calvert says the county must build its own NEPA-plus legal case. Separately (May 28, 2026), ICE is moving to add San Antonio office space as its workforce expands.

blocked — Owner Majestic Realty publicly refused to sell or lease the warehouse to DHS for ICE detention on Feb 16, 2026, after intense city and county opposition. No federal paperwork was ever filed; DHS has not confirmed an alternative Dallas-area site.

active — On May 13, 2026, AG Ken Paxton sent Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown a letter demanding she request and enter a 287(g) agreement with ICE and report compliance before June 1, 2026 — threatening to treat non-action as 'confirmation of your refusal' and to pursue legal action. Brown pushed back, noting SB8's statutory compliance deadline is Dec 1, 2026 (not June 1) and that 'no statutory violation presently exists,' adding that Dallas County already coordinates with ICE under one of the three 287(g) models. This is the first concrete SB8 enforcement action by the AG against a named large-county Texas sheriff.

active-crisis — Three deaths at Camp East Montana including one ruled homicide; ICE inspection found 49 detention standards violations; original operator Acquisition Logistics (no detention experience, $1.3B contract) replaced by Amentum in March 2026; DHS purchased three Socorro warehouses for $123M in January 2026; El Paso City Council voted April 13, 2026 to pursue zoning restrictions on new ICE detention facilities; El Paso County Attorney filed FOIA federal lawsuit April 6, 2026; City of Socorro moved to block facility. UPDATE May 30, 2026: ACLU of Texas, national ACLU, Texas Civil Rights Project and Farella Braun + Martel filed the FIRST lawsuit against the nation's largest ICE detention center — a federal class-action on behalf of 4 named detainees and all current/future Camp East Montana detainees, alleging Fifth Amendment 'unconstitutional punishment' (medical neglect, physical/sexual abuse, insufficient food, denied attorney access). Facility also had a near-month-long measles outbreak; daily avg topped 2,500 as of Apr 2. DHS calls claims 'categorically false.'

won — Texas purchased the facility for $110M via HB 500 and reopened it Feb 24, 2026 as a TDCJ state prison, overriding the county's own selection of CoreCivic as private operator — the facility now holds state inmates, not ICE detainees

lost — Houston City Council passed an ordinance April 8, 2026 barring HPD from prolonging stops or detaining people on civil ICE warrants. Texas Gov. Abbott threatened to withhold $114M in state public safety grants; AG Paxton filed suit. On April 22 the council voted 13-4 to gut the ordinance, deleting key civil warrant language. Civil rights groups called it a capitulation. Texas sued anyway after the retreat. Harris County (separate entity) faces a December 2026 SB8 deadline to sign a 287(g) agreement.

paused — CORRECTED (2026-07-03): a 640,000 sqft McAllen warehouse circulated on a leaked DHS target list for ICE processing use, but as of July 2026 it remains privately owned by Centennial Park LLC and is still actively listed for sale on LoopNet — DHS has NOT completed a purchase (prior version of this entry incorrectly stated a completed ~$66M acquisition; no primary source found for that figure). DHS paused warehouse purchases in late March 2026 under review of Noem-era contracts, and Project Salt Box's tracker still listed the McAllen site as pending as of its most recent update. On April 14, 2026, nine Rio Grande Valley residents confronted the McAllen City Commission demanding the city reject any public funding and seek transparency; Mayor Villalobos indicated federal immunity from local zoning precludes direct city action. A separate, DHS-owned building in Edinburg (Hidalgo Co.) has quietly operated since 2021 as an undisclosed ICE 'Sub Office' — see tx-hidalgo-edinburg-ice-sub-office.md — indicating federal ICE infrastructure in the county is broader than the McAllen warehouse fight alone.

litigation — Supreme Court issued an emergency order in April 2025 barring removal of Venezuelan detainees from Bluebonnet under the Alien Enemies Act; ACLU litigation over due-process violations (coerced English-only paperwork, unsubstantiated Tren de Aragua allegations) continued into the case A.S.R. v. Trump. District judge Hendrix declined to issue a broader protective order for all detainees at the facility.

litigation — Federal litigation ongoing to enforce Flores Settlement protections against Trump administration's revived family detention; DHS/DOJ/HHS separately seeking to terminate Flores nationally; no injunction specific to Karnes reported as of research date

contested — Commissioners voted 3-2 on Feb 12, 2026 to accept a $140K state grant expanding the sheriff's ICE partnership beyond jail-only screening, over near-unanimous public comment opposition and a public survey showing 98% opposed (2,541 of 2,676 respondents); protesters removed from the meeting

active — Williamson County terminated its ICE intergovernmental agreement (4-1 vote, 2018; contract ended Jan 31, 2019), but ICE kept the CoreCivic-run facility open via a direct short-term contract extension — bypassing the county and the commissioners who learned of it from reporters. Grassroots Leadership has litigated for contract transparency. The facility, formerly a family and then women's detention center, now holds adult men and remains operational and on ICE's 2025-2026 Texas detention expansion list.