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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.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 303 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Can we just take a moment to answer a simple question: WHY ARE CHILDREN IN A "DETENTION CENTER" IN THE FIRST PLACE?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 111 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Because Donald Trump is a sociopath.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 86 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because ~~Donald Trump is a~~ Republicans are sociopaths.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Were their detention centers as horrible? As overcrowded? As brutal? There are people who have to be placed in detention in their process of deportation. I don't think we can eliminate deportation for certain people here undocumented, etc. However, we can as a nation force our legislative body to modify and reform the immigration and paths to citizenship laws. But for people who have had asylum cases denied, there is a process. However, it does not need to be a fucking inhumane dumpsterfire.

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

There's no reason we should be deporting people at all. If someone who lives here commits a crime, we can deal with it the same way as anyone else.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wow, this sounds exactly like the same line of reasoning that yall used to justify genociding Gaza. Ever consider getting new material?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And Stephen Miller is a cartoonishly evil white nationalist hyper-troll.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 3 weeks ago

& Nosferatu wannabe prick

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We can just call them concentration camps now. No need to mince words.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 14 points 3 weeks ago

Frankly, I usually do. I only made an exception here to match the original euphemistic phrasing.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Republicans: "Our prisons aren't profitable anymore! Too many states legalized weed, so we had to make due.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Where's the GEO group list?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

Because cruelty is the point.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Trying to create the Mexican joker.