Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside

[douglas9]

Staff at Dilley’s South Texas Family Residential Center have begun raiding cells at the immigrant detention facility to confiscate letters from children detailing the conditions inside, Migrant Insider editor Pablo Manríquez reports.

“UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children,” Manríquez tweeted Tuesday morning.

The raids at the family detention site an hour southwest of San Antonio are in response to a ProPublica article published Feb. 9, which features the letters and drawings of children inside, according to Manriquez.

Many of the children who detailed their experience in the letters have been detained far longer than the 20-day maximum for child detention outlined in the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, ProPublica reported.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school,” 7-year-old Mia Valentina Paz Faria, who was detained for 70 days, wrote, according to the nonprofit news site.

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/report-staff-at-dilley-raiding-cells-to-confiscate-kids-letters-and-drawings-detailing-conditions-inside/

[maxsolomon]

1. There is no bottom to MAGA.

As Adam Serwer wrote in 2018: the cruelty is the point.

[quaint]

2. tears

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Heart breaking

Children having their childhoods ruined. These concentration camps are horrific and shrouded in secrecy, we're going to find horrors in them when the light is finally let in.

What the hell kind of animals would treat children this way?

[AStern]

4. Many in this thread dispute that these detention facilities are "concentration camps"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221025119

[malaise]

5. Nothing will save these monsters when justice

comes calling