[2] On April 22, 2009, some detainees began a hunger strike, alleging violations of due process, inadequate access to medical care and legal resources, and various other abuses.

[3][4] A Department of Homeland Security 2010 report confirms the need to properly staff the facilities medical care and was not addressing detainees sick requests in a timely manner.

[5] In July 2010 Tony Hefner, a former guard at Port Isabel, published a memoir about the corruption and human rights abuses he witnessed in the 1980s.

[6][7] In 2015, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report on the treatment of detainees held in immigration detention centers.

[9] Even though the facility is designated a reunification center, children of detainees are housed at "off-site" locations, making it hard to know how many families have been reunified through ICE.