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?
fat white conservatives are afraid of anything not as equally offensive as themselves and commit their limited energy to squashing perceived threats
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.
We can just call them concentration camps now. No need to mince words.
Frankly, I usually do. I only made an exception here to match the original euphemistic phrasing.
Because Donald Trump is a sociopath.
Because
Donald Trump is aRepublicans are sociopaths.Biden and Obama did it too. This is deeper than parties.
Fuck Trump with a pinecone - but this will not be fixed just because the “other team” wins an election.
Were their detention centers as horrible? As overcrowded? As brutal? There are people who have to be placed in detention in their process of deportation. I don’t think we can eliminate deportation for certain people here undocumented, etc. However, we can as a nation force our legislative body to modify and reform the immigration and paths to citizenship laws. But for people who have had asylum cases denied, there is a process. However, it does not need to be a fucking inhumane dumpsterfire.
Fuck all borders. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/a-no-borders-manifesto
100%
And Stephen Miller is a cartoonishly evil white nationalist hyper-troll.
& Nosferatu wannabe prick
Because they were kidnapped by men who were already profiting from private prisons, but felt their entrepreneurial capabilities were really being hindered by due process
Republicans: "Our prisons aren’t profitable anymore! Too many states legalized weed, so we had to make due.
If you believe the republican narrative, it’s because they’re all members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
In other words, there is no justifiable reason for it and the entire ordeal depends on the ignorance of the maga base and complicity of those in power.
Because cruelty is the point.