"In January, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) visited ICE's Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the main facility for family detentions in Texas. Afterwards, he called it a "monstrous machine," noting that among its 1,100 detainees was a 2-month-old infant. "They are literally being treated as prisoners," he said. On Monday, ProPublica published a devastating and gut-wrenching collection of letters and drawings from eight children currently or previously detained at Dilley-which is also where five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father were held for nearly two weeks."
""I haven't been getthing the rigth education due to being in here," Gaby continued. "I want to tell you guys how I feel and is hell like I really want to go the food is bad im tired of almots the same thing. I feel so much sadness and depression of not being able to leave, its really sad to hear that peoples cases are being denied and getting send back to their countrys.""
ICE's Dilley Immigration Processing Center houses roughly 1,100 detainees, including infants and young children. Children and families experience confinement with descriptions likening treatment to imprisonment. A collection of letters and drawings from eight detained children document emotional distress, hunger, disrupted schooling, and longing for teachers, friends, pets, and familiar foods. A 14-year-old reported 14 days in custody despite ICE guidelines limiting short-term detentions to 72 hours (previously 36). Several children were detained through the holidays. The letters were gathered by an unnamed detainee with parental consent, and many children expressed sadness, depression, and fear of denied cases and forced return.
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