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.
Just a reminder to those who didnt vote.
You helped this.
What do you have to say about Democrats voting to fund ICE further, and them voting on Trump’s nominees? They’re doing a pretty piss poor job of circling the wagons for resistance. More like “Hello mister Trump, yes use my tongue as a carpet mister Trump. May I have a treat, if not that’s fine?”
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.
JFC…The Nazis would have never led Germany if there was a better candidate?
So Trump was the better choice, because he didn’t support the Gaza Genocide?
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.
likely your nation has a parliamentary type system. Ours does not. It really is a fact here that when you vote 3rd party, you are basically throwing out your vote with the benefit of feeling virtuous. 3 months later, your entire constitution is set on fire. But while you are oppressed by the ruling fascists, you can at least feel good about yourself for your ethical decision making. I am thinking all those virtuous citizens of Hungary… how well they think of themselves as they have to lick the Orban Boot on their necks. Or those Russians who love their Putin as he sends their sons to die.
So high and mighty of you but we did not have a viable 3rd party candidate that had any sort of reach that they could have won the election.
We do not have the same system of governance in the US as most of europe does. Like I’m m glad you get more options with ranked choice voting but your plan would have done the same thing here as not voting and left you supporting genocide no matter how you want to try and spin it in your head.
At least had we gotten a democrat president, challenges from the courts could of helped put pressure and had we at least had someone who is not threatening death to those who oppose them we could have worked from a local and state level government to apply pressures to the federal gov to stop supporting Isreal and their genocide. Now those alternatives are nearly impossible as none of the politicians here want to be the ones who start a civil war and get our civilians slaughtered by the US military generating more body counts than what we have already seen in Gaza.
Im getting tired of this high and mighty attitude from Europeans like you when at the same time we all have seen significant rises in fascism and genocide support throughout European nations. I didnt see any of the European countries arresting Netanyahu when he flew through their airspace with an arrest warrant out over the actions of gaza? So europe’s lack of action is just as damning as any country in the west even if you have your own propaganda playing appeasement with stern wording in talks on your news and then a clear lack of follow through when it comes time to actually act.
So no you dont get to wipe your hands and shift blame from the fact its all of us who haven’t been doing enough. The problem is everyone is getting so tribal no one will work together. You put out opinions and state why aren’t your groups doing more and when pressed about what you are doing that gives you any right to critique the actions others are doing you wipe your hands use your false cop out of well thats your sides fault not mine. So either put your fucking money where your mouth is or fuck right off until you learn how to be beneficial and supportive.
Stop doing the uber wealthy’s biding of pitting all possible allies against each other with your little nationalist mentality as if prior to trump europe didnt support all this shit by spending and investing in US stocks and technologies funding the exact shit you see today. We are all complicit in one way or another its fucking impossible not to be with such an interconnected global economy and world, so you need to come to grips with that and start helping instead of acting like you’re above everyone else.
In a two-party system, a vote for a third/ independent party is usually a vote for the worst candidate. It was certainly that way in 2024.
Your protest vote becomes a self-inflicted injury, and they’re the worst kind.
What are your intent and desires for the future, by protest voting? Do you have a clearly defined goal?
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 fucked around far too long with Biden, and Harris threw off a vibe that she had already won, very Clinton.
It screams that the Democrats are living in a bubble and still are.
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.
They based their platform on trying to win over conservative voters, like they typically do, instead of winning over progressive and further left voters.