Immigration attorney Eric Lee said he was at the Dilley facility for a confidential visit with clients — an immigrant family of six, including five children — when guards began shouting for everyone in the waiting area to leave, citing what they described as “an incident.”
As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like “hundreds of children” shouting, with voices he described as “high-pitched” and “urgent.” He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."
Lee said clients he later spoke with told him the protest was triggered by concerns over the treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old who was taken into custody with his father in Minnesota earlier this week and transferred to the Dilley facility.
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Lee described Saturday’s action inside the facility as a peaceful demonstration, not a riot, and said the show of solidarity carried risk for detained families.
Lee said the protest unfolded against what he described as harsh day-to-day conditions inside the Dilley detention center. He characterized the facility as “a horrible, horrible place,” alleging that drinking water is “putrid” and often undrinkable, and that meals have contained “bugs,” dirt, and debris.
“The guards are just as tough as the guards at the adult facilities. This is not a place that you would want to have your child be for even 15 minutes,” Lee said.
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Texas Public Radio reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment on the disturbance and on Lee’s allegations regarding Liam Ramos’ treatment but had not received a response by Saturday evening.
Bolding added, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260126023037/https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2026-01-24/protest-breaks-out-at-dilley-immigration-detention-facility-holding-5-year-old-liam-ramos
That’s horrifying…
My god this sounds dystopian as fuck, like some fiction cyberpunk novel.
Lee said the site does not operate as “civil detention,” arguing it functions like a punitive facility despite housing families.
Because that’s not a thing. Taking away someone’s freedom is a punishment that can only be enforced through violence.
WHY can’t these TERRORISTS just let these UNKNOWN MEN WITH NO BACKGROUND CHECKS have Their WAY with these Children?
Your regular reminder that 6 years ago, the trump dhs lost the Nazi Number of kids
Federal agency says it lost track of 1,488 migrant children
Republicans never care about children unless it’s politically expedient (and even then, nothing more than words) or if they can abuse them
100% they’re trafficking kids and selling them
A third of the kids they detained his first term is still missing. There was that bus of immigrant girls that was sent from Texas to New York and disappeared when they were shipping immigrants willy nilly all over the country. Between half and two thirds of detainees this past year don’t even have records of their detainment. Thousands of people are still missing from alligator Auschwitz. Which was suspiciously close to a neuralink testing facility.
