NEW: The 9-year-old who begged Ms. Rachel for help getting out of ICE detention so he could attend his spelling bee has now also been released from Dilley.
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1/ This story by @julialurie.bsky.social is just a catalog of horrors that kids and families sent to Dilley detention center are subjected to.
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A little more than a year ago, @paperwords.bsky.social received a letter from the US Forest Service detailing plans for a new wildfire recovery project.
But a single word caught his eye—and alerted him to a secret, Big Tobacco-style campaign with ramifications for our forests.
"You can’t drink the water here. The smell is bad, and it hurts our stomachs a lot."
"I have been served raw meat at Dilley. One woman became so sick from eating the food that she began vomiting blood."
First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.
One mom talked about Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old with the Spiderman backpack who was detained for ten days:
Another mom talked about what happened when politicians visited Dilley:
Several parents of young kids described a disastrous Christmas:
Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own.
I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
One mom said guards took away her 9-year-old daughter's crayons "for our security and so the children would not write more letters about the conditions at Dilley." She managed to keep two of her child's letters:
We went through more first-hand accounts from Dilley, the only immigrant family detention center. It's the little details that really stick with me—Christmas "celebrations," a girl's letter asking for help, accounts of being hidden away during congressional visits www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Deiver Henao Jimenez told children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel that he wanted to leave Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas in order to go to his state spelling bee.
"We were given wormy food, and when someone spoke out about it he was taken in the middle of the night....officers told him that he would go to an adult detention center and his children would go to foster care" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Clara Jeffery
First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
