Press conference downtown Dilley, Texas, before the solidarity march to the Dilley detention facility. Deceleration Video
In quiet downtown Dilley, Texas, about 200 people from across Texas gathered beside a oversized watermelon sculpture to decry conditions inside CoreCivic's family detention center and demand the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and abolishing of ICE.
Candy, aged 13, told the crowd that she was detained and in custody at the age of three along with her mother.
“During this time I was under the custody of an officer and a dog that at one point terrorized me and this marked my infancy completely. It’s been 10 years and I still fill with panic any time I see a dog.”
They then marched miles across town to protest in front of the facility, where just days before hundreds of the incarcerated themselves raised their voices demanding the world's attention. Many were met with batons and tear gas.
Two San Antonio high school students capture the energy and passion of their peers, who took to the streets on a federal holiday in support of family, friends, and neighbors terrorized by ICE.
Numerous lawsuits and judge’s orders have dogged ICE detention centers in recent months, with one federal judge comparing a facility outside Chicago to a “concentration camp.”
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two San Antonio high school students capture the energy and passion of their peers, who took to the streets on a federal holiday in support of family, friends, and neighbors terrorized by ICE.
Greg Harman
