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A new facility to house illegal immigrants and their children could be coming to Raymondivlle if city leaders have their way.
Federal officials recently put out a bid to construct three new detention facilities modeled after one in Hutto, Texas
Raymondville leaders are putting in a bid to land one of them right here in the Valley.
If approved the facility would be built on city-owned land next to a jail complex that already houses 46-hundred local, state and federal inmates.
