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.
Anytime any republican does ANYTHING and says it’s “for the children”, I want you to remember this exact moment, and know that they are full of shit. THIS is how they treat children.
This problem is deeper than both parties, we also allowed children to be in concentration camps in Palestine… for decades. The US has been changing for the worse since Kennedy died… we need a revolution, against the slavers. not against our constitution.
They just made a mistake, they had the wrong preposition. They mean they do things “to the children”. It makes a lot more sense after appling that correction.
It’s for their own children, not anyone else’s.
Nah, it’s not even that. They’ll toss their own children out in a heartbeat if they don’t follow in their parents’ footsteps. It’s not about children at all. That’s just another of their double speak lies.
In fact “children” is nothing but a dog whistle
Just a reminder to those who didnt vote.
You helped this.
You should blame the Democrats for not running a viable candidate. Harris was pro-genocide. Anyone who actually did vote for her is complicit in Israel’s genocide, whether they like that fact or not.
Since you volunteered your stance in this discussion, let me query you: what is your strategy by not voting in the 2025 us presidential election? What is your depth of understanding, and your resulting intent and desires for the present and future?
I was not eligible to vote, I am European. I have the happy luxury of being able to say I have never voted to support a genocide.
If I had been eligible, I would have voted for a third party candidate or not at all. I have values that I believe strongly in, such as always opposing genocide, which preclude me from voting for a pro-genocide candidate, and I refuse to accept anyone getting onto some kind of high horse over that.
Democrats are controlled opposition who didn’t want to win so they can pretend they’re not complicit. The system churns away broken, working as intended.
Yeah you’re right, Democrats didn’t want to win the presidential election. Give me a fucking break.
They sure as hell didn’t act like they wanted to win. Dancing around with Liz Cheney or promising stricter border control doesn’t exactly scream winning strategy to me. The Dems started out with the very popular idea of going after grocery chains that were gouging customers, but dropped that line of messaging after Kamala spoke with her brother in law who is an Uber exec.
Can we just take a moment to answer a simple question: WHY ARE CHILDREN IN A “DETENTION CENTER” IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Authorities love to escalate everything.
If you are foreign-born with a “foreign sounding” name and you defend yourself against a bully in a US school, the school admin will literally call the police on you.
Cuz I was that kid who defended himself. And I got in trouble for fucking self defence.
We can just call them concentration camps now. No need to mince words.
Frankly, I usually do. I only made an exception here to match the original euphemistic phrasing.
Because Donald Trump is a sociopath.
Because
Donald Trump is aRepublicans are sociopaths.Biden and Obama did it too. This is deeper than parties.
Fuck Trump with a pinecone - but this will not be fixed just because the “other team” wins an election.
Fuck all borders. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/a-no-borders-manifesto
100%
And Stephen Miller is a cartoonishly evil white nationalist hyper-troll.
& Nosferatu wannabe prick
Because they were kidnapped by men who were already profiting from private prisons, but felt their entrepreneurial capabilities were really being hindered by due process
Republicans: "Our prisons aren’t profitable anymore! Too many states legalized weed, so we had to make due.
If you believe the republican narrative, it’s because they’re all members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
In other words, there is no justifiable reason for it and the entire ordeal depends on the ignorance of the maga base and complicity of those in power.
Because cruelty is the point.
I feel pretty comfortable telling anybody that reads the headline and doesn’t immediately side with the kidnapped children who are being forced to live in squalor: 🗣️🔊GO FUCK YOURSELF AND I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL, YOU SACK OF NAZI DOG SHIT.
How long have those children been in there, huh? I was in juvie pretrial for actual crimes and got outdoor time, school sessions, group therapy. This place have any of that for non-criminal minors?
The whole operation is a money making scheme. They get about $100 per day from the government to detain a person. They are sweeping up as many as they can which clogs up the courts which means they can detain people even longer and make even more money.
I guess it depends on if you trust the word of the private prison corporation that owns the facility and receives a federal contract to pack people in like sardines.
This is just a guess, but I will go out on a limb and say that probably if any of that “exists” it’s just for show to check off some boxes on a form that tacks in a few more million to your contract. Like a classroom nobody uses or a recreational area the kids aren’t allowed to play in.
We all know the answer to that
Starting to sound an awful lot like capital ‘C’ Concentration Camps.
Start watching for “deportation” to transition to torture, forced labor, and death by neglect (which has already happened in some cases.)
Torture, forced labor and death by neglect are all already widespread, just look at Seacott.
The bigger question is, what are you doing about it? There are nazi concentration camps on US soil and federal agents are executing white US citizens in the streets.
Are you going to lie down and take that? Are you just gonna post online about it? Or are you going to join the fight against them, find a local activist group or protest, and arm yourself in preparation for the coming revolution?
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Well that would be super hard to imagine since that’s never happened repeatedly throughout history. /s
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It makes me feel sick to have to ask this, but did all of the kids survive? Did any make it out?
What do you mean make it out? They’re being held in a private prison.
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.
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.
The Dilley detention complex — known for years as the South Texas Family Residential Center — closed in 2024 and later reopened, as federal authorities expanded detention capacity for immigrant families, according to prior reporting and company statements.
I was expecting more of a riot type of situation. It’s at least good that they still have some morale, regardless.
“leave the kids alone …” ye freakin’ arseholes
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Who here is implying these kids were doing anything violent vs just using free speech to protest?
Who here seems to be the kind of person that sees somebody being abused and antagonized by an authority figure with the literal control of all of homeland Security and the entire federal government, and “for some reason,” (who’s to possibly say why🙄) their instinct is to join the authority figure antagonizing the victim and saying something like "you just going to stand there and take that ya pussy?’
I didn’t imply anyone was being violent.
How do you see what they’re doing as any different than any other peaceful protest?
Who here thinks these kids just need a picket sign to hold?
This you being sincere?
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??? What are they doing that isn’t being done in Minnesota right now?
(They’ve been doing this troll schtick all over the political subs today, they’re not engaging in good faith. Just a heads up.)
