US EditionImmigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of families protested unsafe conditions and prolonged detention at the South Texas Family Residential Center, where about 1,500 detainees participated, advocates said.
- On Saturday, a protest broke out at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, about 70 miles south of San Antonio, as immigrant detainees including children poured into dormitories chanting `Libertad` while dozens of immigrant families protested behind fences.
- The detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias earlier this week in Minnesota sparked protests, with families citing long-standing abuses like "putrid" water and food with worms.
- Immigration attorney Eric Lee, who witnessed the event, said guards ordered everyone out of the waiting room during his visit with a family of six including five children, and he later heard hundreds of children shouting as detainees protested.
- Amid growing national scrutiny, the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately comment Saturday, ICE had not responded by evening, and federal officials disputed family and neighbors alleging baiting.
- Built in 2014, the South Texas Family Residential Center is the only U.S. family detention center, and its 2024 reopening under President Donald Trump has exposed hundreds of families to prolonged custody and substandard care, raising Flores Settlement Agreement concerns.
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BizTocFamilies protest 5-year-old boy held at Texas facility separated from detained father
Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
Dozens of immigrant families protested on Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention center where an Ecuadorian 5-year-old boy and his father were sent this week after being arrested in Minnesota. Families could also be heard outside chanting “Freedom!” or “Let us go!”, said Eric Lee, an immigration lawyer who was there to visit a client at the facility in Dilley city. “The message we want to convey is that they treat us with dignity and in…
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