An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event.
The protest took place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, which closed in 2024 but was reopened by the Trump administration this year to detain immigrant families.
On Saturday, facility personnel abruptly ordered immigration attorneys who were present to leave, saying “an incident” had taken place. Michigan-based immigration attorney Eric Lee, who was among those forced to leave, said he could hear shouting that sounded “high-pitched” and “urgent,” indicating that he believed there were “hundreds of children” taking part in the uprising.
Lee later said his clients told him the protest began in response to the treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old from Minnesota who was abducted, along with his father, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents last week. The two were transferred to the jail, more than 1,300 miles from home, shortly after being detained.
School officials familiar with the incident say that an adult living in Liam’s home had begged for ICE agents to let Liam stay after his father was taken into custody.
Can we just take a moment to answer a simple question: WHY ARE CHILDREN IN A “DETENTION CENTER” IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Authorities love to escalate everything.
If you are foreign-born with a “foreign sounding” name and you defend yourself against a bully in a US school, the school admin will literally call the police on you.
Cuz I was that kid who defended himself. And I got in trouble for fucking self defence.
fat white conservatives are afraid of anything not as equally offensive as themselves and commit their limited energy to squashing perceived threats
Trying to create the Mexican joker.
Anytime any republican does ANYTHING and says it’s “for the children”, I want you to remember this exact moment, and know that they are full of shit. THIS is how they treat children.
It’s for their own children, not anyone else’s.
MAGAs are sociopaths, they don’t care about anybody but themselves, and that includes their children. Children are just tools to get what they want.
Nah, it’s not even that. They’ll toss their own children out in a heartbeat if they don’t follow in their parents’ footsteps. It’s not about children at all. That’s just another of their double speak lies.
