ICE confiscates letters from children in custody

[orangecrush]

This is some sickening shit.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-02-18T19:08:55.988Z

"ProPublica received letters in mid-January from several children at Dilley. All but two of them had been living in the United States when they were detained. In their words and drawings, they convey how much they ache for creature comforts and describe the anguish of being trapped. They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick — some say they’re sick a lot — and feeling scared about what comes next.

Three days later - during a House Homeland Security hearing, Rep. James Walkinshaw read some of the handwritten letters and shared drawings from the children held in ICE family detention — then questioned ICE acting director Todd Lyons about them.

Then yesterday, February 17th, Pablo Manríquez with Migrant Insider reported “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.”

[Lovie777]

1. Evil......

[Chasstev365]

2. Do they substitute them with letters that read, "We are well since being relocated to the East."

External hell will not be good enough for most people in Trump's criminal cabal that masquerades as an administration.

[Gaugamela]

3. Nazis.

[Bayard]

4. Sickening is right

These kids, like many of their parents, did nothing to deserve this treatment. War crimes in our own country, by our own government, and rethuglican Congress members need to get on board with investigating, and prosecuting.

[Volaris]

5. Im sorry, ....what was that you were saying about 'its not a concentration camp.'?

[MuirHero]

14. Hell yes these are concentration camps.

How long will it be until these hellholes become death camps, and no, that is not hyperbolic thinking?

[Volaris]

17. I dont think its hyperbolic at all, i agree with you.

I was asking a sarcastic question.

[bluestarone]

6. Nothing can be done here?

WTF?

[orangecrush]

11. My thoughts exactly

[MuirHero]

16. Are we getting closer to our "storm the Bastille" moment?

[NBachers]

7. Firing squads are too good for these monsters.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Fucking sick. We need accountability. Dems need to kick it up

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. The first thing an abused child is told after having been abused is

"keep your mouth shut, or else". The abuser knows the child would be too scared to say anything.
Like a criminal is held responsible for what their crime partners do, all of ICE, MUST be held accountable for the actions of one and all.

[bluestarone]

10. Hoping this is not over.

These kids have stories to tell. i'm believing we will hear the stories they have to tell. (some day)

[GiqueCee]

12. This WON'T be over...

... until each and every one of this evil fucks is behind bars, including the monsters at the top, and ESPECIALLY the monster at the very top. And if the Sinister Six currently polluting the SCOTUS try to bail him out... let's just say there will be consequences.

[BidenRocks]

13. This is MAIL!

With all the federal penalties applying for messing with it.
The fact it isn't stamped or in an envelope is simple.
Gestapo guards do not supply them.
That does not change my charge of a felony.
I miss having a functioning government where the Postmaster General would be on this like stink on shit!

[orangecrush]

18. Laws no longer apply if Trump says so

Apparently

[sakabatou]

15. ICE agents are monsters pretending to be human

[Kid Berwyn]

19. What Bill of Rights?

Traitors.