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Officials inaugurated the nation's largest immigration detention facility Monday amid a renewed push from President Barack Obama to secure the border. The 50-acre detention center being constructed in Texas will house up to 2,400 illegal immigrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

Jeh Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, used the opening of the center in Dilley, 85 miles northeast of Laredo, to highlight the Obama administration's border security plan less than a month after Obama promised to make it easier for up to 5 million illegal immigrants to obtain temporary work and resident visas. It will be by far the largest detention center for migrant families in the nation, with the current largest featuring only about 100 beds.

It will now be more likely that you will be detained and sent back, Johnson said during his speech.This must be clear. Our borders are not open to illegal migration.

The Texas detention center is designed to house migrant women and their children as their deportation cases are processed in the U.S. court system, according to the New York Times.It includes a library, classrooms and a playground with a slide and bench.The $290 million detention center was formerly the site of a man camp for oil workers, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Texas is leading a lawsuit from more than 20 states suing to stop the federal government from allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. under Obama's policy. At the same time, immigration proponents argue that the nation should not detain immigrants for months as their cases are processed in court. There are no conditions that could make the mass incarceration of families right, Stephen Manning, an immigration lawyer, told the New York Times.

Johnson also slammed Congress Monday for not funding border security through the fiscal year. The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill passed by lawmakers last week only funds the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27 in protest of Obama's immigration policy.

Congress has failed to act on this departments request for supplemental funding for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, to pay for our surge in resources to the southern border in response to last summers spike in illegal migration there, Johnson said. We need to pay the bill for that surge, and keep those resources in place for the future.

Obama unveiledlast month his executive plan to move forward and reform the nation's immigration laws without Congress' approval. The plan will benefit the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants who've lived in the country for at least five years.

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With 24 states almost half the U.S. now suing Barack Obamas federal government over its executive action on immigration reform, Eva Longoriasays she backs the president's move, designed to spare millions living illegally from deportation.

Speaking at the Dubai International Film Festival, the actress who is from the state of Texas, which is leading the coalition against Obama's measures said that it was "imperative" that the immigration reforms took place.

"Immigration reform is a global problem. Every country has issues with immigrant labor and industries being dependent on them," she said. "But we have had a 'do nothing' Congress, and I fully support the presidents immigration reform. People have to understand the history of immigration in the United States."

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Longoria has long talked about the issues of immigration. In November, at the New York premiere of the documentary Food Chains, which looks at the lives of tomato farm workers in Florida and on which Longoria was executive producer, she told Fox News Latino that something needed to be done.

"I do think that some action needs to be taken, and if Congress isnt willing to do it, we need to explore all options," she said.

Speaking to Latina Magazine in August, she said she was disappointed that the debate was often being led by those who didn't understand the situation.

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"I just wish people would view this with a lens of compassion, and at the same time, educate themselves on ignorant statements like, 'These people come here to suck dry our social services.' Thats not true."

Longorias first Spanish-speaking role, the Michael Berry-directed Frontera, was set on the Arizona-Mexico border and tackled issues of immigration. Released earlier in the year, it also starred Ed Harris and Michael Pena.

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