An Egyptian family of six believed to be the longest held at the controversial South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, the nation’s only federal immigrant facility authorized to imprison parents with their children, were redetained Saturday after federal judges this week ordered their release. They are being sent to Egypt on a private plane, according to one of the family’s lawyers.
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A lawyer for a family that has spent close to a year at an immigration detention center in Texas at the insistence of the Trump administration demanded the family’s release late Monday after a federal magistrate judge found that “requiring them to endure further detention… risks compounding the constitutional violation.” “A federal court has determined [US Immigration and Customs Enforcement]’…
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As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades. The causes of the deaths have varied, but they include at least one homicide. At least 17 people have died in ICE custody since January. “I have never seen anything like this, where I’m seeing…
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An explosion of reported measles cases in Texas’ federal detention facilities broke through to the public last month, infecting at least four El Paso residents who worked in one of the centers and potentially exposing the highly contagious disease to the wider population, according to emails obtained by The Texas Tribune through record requests. The emails also reveal that as they grappled…
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Prison guards at an immigration detention facility in southern Texas have reportedly been raiding the cells of families to confiscate and destroy children’s letters and drawings depicting the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. Guards at the Dilley Detention Center appear to be retaliating against families in the jail after ProPublica reported on their living conditions.
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Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, with her mother for some 45 days when I managed to get inside to meet her. The staff brought everyone in the visiting room a boxed lunch from the cafeteria: a cup of yellowish stew and a hamburger patty in a plain bun. Ariana’s long black curls hung loosely around her face and she was wearing a…
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