Immigrant rights advocates and elected Democrats are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shut down an immigrant jail outside of El Paso, Texas. New evidence calls into question the official narratives about the recent deaths of two men held at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss Army base in West Texas. Geraldo Lunas Campos and Victor Manuel Diaz are…
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A Border Patrol agent shot a person in Arizona and left them in critical condition on Tuesday morning, local officials say, marking at least the sixth person shot by federal immigration agents in just three weeks. Around 7:30 am local time, emergency responders arrived on the scene, in Arivaca, Arizona, to a person in custody and in critical condition, according to the Santa Rita Fire…
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Amid growing calls for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), one House Democrat is calling for the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to be dismantled. In a social media post on Monday about federal officers’ killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, Rep. Delia C. Ramirez, a Democrat representing part of Chicago, pointed out that DHS’s purpose since its…
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Impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have gained dozens of cosponsors in just the past few days, as the horrific Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis spurs a major decline in support for the administration’s immigration raids among lawmakers. The articles now have over 140 House cosponsors, a major increase from 111 on Friday. Rep.
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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a victory this month in its ongoing attempt to deport Syrian-born Palestinian activist, husband, father, and former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil remains in the country for now and the legal battle is far from over, but the future of free speech in the US hangs in the balance. This week on The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Amy Greer, an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis and a member of Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team, about the status of Khalil’s case.Guest:
Amy Greer is an associate attorney at Dratel & Lewis, and a member of Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team. Greer is a lawyer and archivist by training, and an advocate and storyteller by nature. As an attorney at Dratel & Lewis, she works on a variety of cases, including international extradition, RICO, terrorism, and drug trafficking. She previously served as an assistant public defender on a remote island in Alaska, defending people charged with misdemeanors, and as a research and writing attorney on capital habeas cases with clients who have been sentenced to death.
Additional links/info:
ACLU Press Release (1/15/26): “Appeals court in Mahmoud Khalil’s case decides federal court lacks jurisdiction until immigration court proceedings complete”
Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “‘Call Amy!’: Lawyer for Mahmoud Khalil reveals how he won his freedom”
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Production: David Hebden
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Amy Greer:
When the line starts moving and inching creeping forward, and we all stay silent because it’s like, that’s not our people, or that’s
This story was originally published on Truthout on Jan. 26, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
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.
“There was ample opportunity to be able to safely hand that child off to adults,” Mary Granlund, chair of the Columbia Heights School Board, said during a press conference last week.
School officials also said that Liam was used as “bait” by agents, in an attempt to get