CoreCivic Laredo Processing Center

CoreCivic Laredo Processing Center is an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) detention facility located in Laredo, Texas. It falls under the Harlingen Field Office ERO field office area of responsibility.

Facility quick reference

ZIP note: ice.gov prints 78401 in this facility’s address block, which USPS assigns to Corpus Christi, not Laredo. ICE’s own money-order instruction on the same page uses 78041, and the operator, CoreCivic, publishes 78041 twice — including as the address for correspondence — at corecivic.com. Use 78041 when mailing letters or money orders.

How to locate or contact a detainee

To locate someone in ICE custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System at locator.ice.gov. You will need the person’s A-number (Alien Registration Number) and country of birth, or their full name, country of birth, and date of birth.

ICE publishes two different numbers for this facility. To ask whether someone is held here, call (956) 615-9720; ICE lists that line as answered between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. To leave an urgent message for a detainee, call (956) 727-4118 and leave the detainee’s full name and alien registration number (A-number), plus your own name and a phone number where you can be reached; the facility passes the message on. Detainees cannot receive incoming calls — they place outgoing calls themselves. Have the person’s biographical information ready when you call (first, last and hyphenated names, any aliases, date of birth, and country of birth). This facility has tablets; ICE points to www.talton.com for instructions on sending a non-confidential message.

Visiting in person

ICE’s page for this facility (last updated 08/06/2026, checked September 24, 2026) publishes this friends-and-family schedule. Every window is reserved for female detainees of specific custody levels:

The schedule lists no visiting window for male detainees, although ICE’s January 2026 inspection report (below) says the facility holds both men and women. If you plan to visit a man held here, ask the facility at (956) 615-9720 how visits are arranged before you travel. ICE adds that special visit times may be granted through a detainee’s pre-approved written request, and that special-request visits take place on Wednesdays.

The family-visit rules ICE publishes for this facility:

• An appointment is required. ICE says visiting family and friends must make a visitation appointment, with no exceptions; the page does not say how to book one.
• One visit per visitor per day. Delays may occur during detainee meals, programs and counts, and the schedule can change without prior notice.
• No electronics or cell phones beyond the pedestrian gate, and no packages, items or mail are accepted for delivery during visits.
• Minors must be supervised by an adult guardian at all times.
• All family and social visits are non-contact. Visitors must wear appropriate, socially acceptable attire; anyone who is or appears to be intoxicated is turned away, and shift supervisors may deny, cancel or postpone a visit that threatens the facility’s security or order.

Everyone entering the facility or the visitation area is subject to a pat-down search, an inspection of belongings and a metal scan; anyone who refuses a reasonable search is not admitted. ICE lists free public parking at the facility.

Sending mail, commissary funds, and personal items

Letters and packages sent to a detainee must identify the detainee and show the sender’s name and return address (this facility’s own format is below) — and each facility publishes its own exact format: some also require a housing-unit number, and facilities run by the federal Bureau of Prisons use the BOP register number instead. ICE lists each facility’s format on that facility’s page at ice.gov. This facility’s own ICE page says incoming mail “is not read upon opening, only inspected by the delivering officer” and that detainees may seal their own outgoing letters. ICE’s 2019 national standard allows more than that. Under ICE’s National Detention Standards, Revised 2019, §5.1(E) — cited here for comparison only, because ICE’s Office of Detention Oversight inspected this facility in January 2026 under the National Detention Standards (NDS) 2025 instead (inspection report), and we have not reviewed that standard’s mail rules — incoming general mail is opened and inspected for contraband, and outgoing general mail may be inspected and read if it is addressed to another detainee or staff have reason to believe it threatens the facility’s security or order, endangers someone, or could facilitate criminal activity. Only special correspondence — mail to or from attorneys and other legal representatives, courts and judges, government attorneys, embassies and consulates, the President and Vice President of the United States, members of Congress, the Department of Justice (including the immigration courts), DHS (including ICE/ERO, IHSC, CRCL and the DHS Inspector General), grievance administrators, and the news media — may not be read or copied by staff. Incoming special correspondence is inspected for contraband in the detainee’s presence; outgoing special correspondence is not opened, inspected or read, and if a need exists, any inspection takes place in the detainee’s presence. The standard limits any inspection to detecting physical contraband and confirming that enclosures qualify as special correspondence. Mail counts as special correspondence only if the envelope unambiguously identifies the title and office of the sender (incoming mail) or of the addressee (outgoing mail). Rules for commissary (account) deposits and permitted personal items vary by facility, and so does the number that handles them — ICE names a separate facility mail clerk on some facility pages. This facility’s deposit route, accepted form of payment and contacts are in the Sending Items to Detainees section of its own ICE page (linked above).

What ICE publishes for this facility’s mail, money, and packages

• Letters must include the last four digits of the detainee’s A-number (File Number), plus the sender’s name and address. Outgoing mail is routed to the post office within 24 hours of receipt by facility staff.
• Money: ICE says money can be placed on a detainee’s account by money order through the U.S. Postal Service, sent to Laredo Processing Center, 4702 E. Saunders, Laredo, TX 78041, with the detainee’s name referenced on the money order. Funds that arrive by mail are taken to the processing area, put on the account and receipted; ICE cautions detainees not to have cash sent in the mail.
• Packages need approval first. The detainee submits a general request to the mail officer listing the items to be sent; if it is approved, the detainee receives a copy and then tells the sender to mail the pre-approved items. ICE limits these to items needed solely for travel or release from custody, with the ICE Deportation Officer’s approval.
• Stamps: detainees may buy them; indigent detainees (no means of support and no funds in their facility account) get a postage allowance at government expense.
• Transfers and departures: only legal mail is forwarded; general correspondence is returned to sender.
• Luggage for removal: one small piece is allowed; if the person has none, luggage can be sent or delivered after approval from the Supervisory Deportation Officer. No electronic devices (cell phones, electric razors, laptops, radios) are accepted.

Legal access, attorneys, and immigration court information

Detainees have the right to speak with an attorney, and attorney–client visits and calls are confidential. For information about a case before the immigration court (EOIR), EOIR’s automated line 1-800-898-7180 (toll-free, 24 hours a day, English and Spanish) gives the next hearing date and case status; callers enter the 9 digits of the A-number, without the letter A (EOIR, checked October 24, 2026). For a matter before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the main line of EOIR (the Justice Department agency the BIA belongs to) is (703) 305-0289. Applications for relief from removal must be filed directly with the immigration court handling the case. If you cannot afford an attorney, the immigration court can provide a list of pro bono legal service providers — see the related resources below.

Case information, the deportation officer, and G-28s

• Case-information requests for people held at the Laredo Processing Center go to harlingen_outreach@ice.dhs.gov. ICE notes this mailbox does not accept applications for a stay of removal or case appeals.
• To learn who the client’s Deportation Officer is, ICE says to contact the Harlingen Field Office and/or the Laredo office at (956) 615-9720; a G-28 must be on file before anything is disclosed.
• G-28s can be submitted through ICE’s online platform ERO eFile. Facility staff do not have access to ERO eFile, so representatives should bring a downloaded copy of the submitted G-28 to any in-person or remote legal visit.

As of September 24, 2026, ICE’s page for this facility publishes no procedure for video legal visits, legal phone calls, or faxing or emailing legal documents to a detainee, although ICE posts those procedures for some other facilities. Ask the facility before relying on those channels.

Free legal providers on EOIR’s list for the Laredo Immigration Court

ICE says a list of pro bono (free) legal organizations, updated quarterly, is posted in the detainee housing units, and that it is the detainee’s own responsibility to contact a provider for an appointment. ICE’s facility page does not name the immigration court that hears the cases of people held here — confirm it from the A-number through EOIR’s hotline at 1-800-898-7180. On the October 2026 edition of EOIR’s List of Pro Bono Legal Service Providers, the entries under Laredo Immigration Court (Laredo, Texas) are:

EOIR states that it does not endorse any of the organizations, referral services, or attorneys on its list.

Feedback, complaints, and oversight

To report a concern about conditions at this facility or the conduct of an ICE or contract employee, contact the ERO Harlingen Field Office that oversees this facility, or file a complaint with the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL). On its own Make a Civil Rights Complaint page DHS publishes one channel — the online portal at engage.dhs.gov/crcl-complaint; CBP additionally publishes, for the same office, the e-mail address CRCL@dhs.gov, fax (202) 401-4708, and the postal address DHS/CRCL, Compliance Branch, 2707 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Mail Stop #0190, Washington, DC 20528-0190. The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) hotline is 1-800-323-8603.

This facility’s own ICE page adds these channels:

• Comments on service, or a misconduct complaint to the field office: Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 1717 Zoy Street, Harlingen, TX 78552.
• ICE Office of Professional Responsibility (by mail): Director, Office of Professional Responsibility, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 500 12th Street, SW, Suite 1049, Mailstop 5099, Washington, DC 20536-5005.
• ICE OPR Integrity Coordination Center: 1-833-4ICE-OPR or ICEOPRIntake@ice.dhs.gov.
• DHS OIG in writing: DHS Office of Inspector General/MAIL STOP 0305, Attn: Office of Investigations - Hotline, 245 Murray Lane SW, Washington, DC 20528-0305 (the address on the OIG’s own hotline page as of September 24, 2026; the older Murray Drive address, fax and email shown on the ICE page are not listed there).

A news reporter who wants to interview someone held here must apply in writing to the Harlingen Field Office. ICE says a detainee has the right not to be interviewed, photographed or recorded, and the reporter must first obtain the detainee’s written permission.

ICE inspection record

In its March 18–20, 2025 inspection, ODO also reported:

• ODO found a mildew-like substance, grime and soap scum in two of seven dorm showers, in dorms One and Three.
• ODO reported that the warden issued a memorandum directing daily shower inspections by post officers and weekly inspections by duty supervisors.
• ODO confirmed on March 20, 2025 that the showers in all detainee dorms were clean and free of mildew, grime and soap scum.

ICE’s Office of Detention Oversight (ODO), part of ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, inspected this facility on January 13–15, 2026 (ODO report, Inspection 2026-001-062). What the report says:

• Who runs it: the facility opened in 1985 and is owned and operated by CoreCivic; ICE began housing detainees there in 1985 under ERO Harlingen. It is a dedicated ICE facility operating under the National Detention Standards (NDS) 2025, and it holds male and female detainees of low, medium-low, medium-high and high security classification for periods longer than 72 hours.
• Staffing and services: ERO deportation officers are not assigned to the facility full time; they make weekly scheduled visits on Tuesdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Trinity Services provides food, CoreCivic provides medical care, and Keefe Supply Company provides commissary. After a November 2024 audit, the facility was certified under the DHS Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards.
• Findings: compliant with 23 of 24 standards reviewed. One deficiency, in Medical Care, flagged as a priority component: in 1 of 25 detainee medical records reviewed, staff did not obtain a separate documented informed consent, including a description of side effects, before giving psychotropic medication.
• Detainee interviews: ODO interviewed 38 detainees; none alleged discrimination, mistreatment or abuse, and all reported satisfaction with facility services.
• Rating: Good. The previous inspection, in March 2025 under NDS 2019, found one deficiency (Environmental Health and Safety) and rated the facility Superior.

ODO redacts bed-capacity and population counts in the published report; for population, see the ICE statistics box above. ICE lists every posted report, back to 2012 for this facility, on its ODO facility inspections page.

Earlier inspections.

• March 18-20, 2025: ODO interviewed 30 detainees who voluntarily agreed to participate (report).
• September 10-12, 2024: ODO reviewed 20 special-management-unit log entries and found that 13 lacked the signature of the officer recording the detainee’s activities. In a reviewed detention file for a detainee in that unit who had been denied recreation, ODO found no written authorization from the facility administrator for that denial (follow-up report).

287(g) agreements in Webb County

This facility is in Webb County, Texas (per the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder for the address ICE publishes). ICE's 287(g) participating-agencies workbook, dated October 9, 2026, records 1 agreement with agencies in that county:

Source: ICE, 287(g) program (participating-agencies workbook). A 287(g) agreement is between ICE and the law-enforcement agency; on its own it says nothing about this facility. What each model means · all agreements by state.

Related procedural resources

• Know Your Rights — what to do if ICE detains you
• EOIR immigration court schedules and procedures
• BIA-recognized legal-aid organizations in Texas
• Other ICE detention facilities in Texas
• All facilities under the Harlingen Field Office