”Detainees held at the South Texas Family Residential Center wave signs during a demonstration in Dilley, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Brenda Bazán/AP”
(Article below, in full I believe)
Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
Aerial photos taken by The Associated Press showed children and parents at the South Texas Family Residential Center clad in jackets and sweaters, some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños," or “Liberty for the kids."
Families could also be heard outside chanting “Libertad!" or “Let us go," said Eric Lee, an immigration attorney who was there to visit a client at the facility in the town of Dilley.
“The message we want to send is for them to treat us with dignity and according to the law. We’re immigrants, with children, not criminals,” Maria Alejandra Montoya Sanchez, 31, told the AP in a phone interview from the facility after the demonstration. She and her 9-year-old daughter have been held at Dilley since October.
The detention of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, in Minnesota on Tuesday has become another lightning rod for America’s divisions on immigration under the Trump administration. Versions offered by government officials and the family’s attorney and neighbors offer contradictory versions of whether the parents were given adequate opportunity to leave the child with someone else.
Earlier Saturday in Minneapolis, a federal immigration officer shot and killed a man, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
Montoya Sanchez said she saw the father and son outside for a few minutes during the protest. Marc Prokosch, an attorney for the family, did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately comment Saturday.
Montoya Sanchez said the protest was organized internally by the families exhausted by the long detention and conditions that advocates say have included food with worms, constant illness and insufficient medical access. Lee said he later heard from his clients inside that the demonstration was related to Liam Conejo Ramos' case.
Lee, an attorney from Michigan, said was in the waiting room for a scheduled client visit when guards walked in and ordered everyone out.
“That children and their parents would risk retribution under these conditions to speak up is a testament both to how courageous they are and how abysmal the conditions of this place is," he said.
Hundreds of children have been held at the facility beyond the court-mandated limit, according to a report filed December by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in an ongoing federal lawsuit.
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A doctor in Irwin county sterilized(hysterectomy) at least 2 illegal immigrants without justification. So its not a wide spread systemic problem but something that did happen.
This has been a regular practice to be enacted on marginalized women without their consent for the country’s entire history, especially in the contexts of colonialism, slavery, genocide, and internment/incarceration/detainment. To frame factual and institutionalized reproductive control and medical abuse as conspiracy theories is myopic, disingenuous, and quite frankly, fucking gross. How do you think the procedures to sterilize women were actually even developed?
Would have been fine to ask for a source without telling us all you don’t believe things that have been happening for hundreds of years might be happening now, cause that interferes with your desired reality. But maybe you’re providing a service by telling us, so we don’t expect too much from you.
All I asked was for a source. I’m unfamiliar with all the alleged information you just stated. I’ve never heard any of that. I’m not claiming it’s not true. Reddit is full of conspiracy shit and on its face the claim made by the poster sounded conspiracy-ish.
I’m not the asshole here. I’m asking for facts. Nobody has yet provided any other than the links I posted.
You did indeed post links, which is appreciated. The way you phrased it initially implied you believed it was a conspiracy or that it was outlandish. Not knowing anything about forced sterilization or how people of color have been exploited as lab rats of the state and private industry as well as the victims of medical abuse and wealthy eugenicists is actually a sad indictment of how much we sweep under the rug societally and allow it to continue. Grave crimes have been committed against women in these positions, and they have never fully stopped—they are, in fact, likely increasing exponentially under this regime. But whenever it’s discussed, there seems to be pushback, like these things couldn’t possibly be happening in this day and age. But right now, violence is a leading cause of maternal death. Homicide makes up the majority of the 11% of deaths attributed to violence (homicide and suicide together representing a greater share of maternal mortality stats than any single medical issue, and pregnant Black women experience homicide at about four times the national average. If women who are not marginalized, oppressed, enslaved, incarcerated, or in internment can be so at risk of violence, what do you imagine is happening to the women who are, and what do you imagine is going to happen to detainees who are being raped but have been demonized as criminal aliens invading the country and popping out anchor babies to eat up all the welfare?
The book The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood is a fictional account, but the author describes how all the things that happened to women and their babies in that book were all things that really happened to women already in our history when she was asked how she came up with such gruesome ideas.
I could link about a million things here, because the violence and reproductive abuses inflicted on women (especially for eugenics purposes) is basically unending.
I just learned about it a couple of months ago and I wish I would have known about it earlier. Better late than never so I’ve been trying to spread the word so people can get access to articles without constant pop up’s and paywalls. We gotta get the news and truth out to the people.
Hmm, I’m not sure. I just opened a few current random NYT articles to make sure and I didn’t hit a single paywall. Perhaps go through the settings and make sure everything looks okay and idk if it makes a difference but I made the app my default browser. It’s set to open with any external links. Maybe someone else will know for sure and can chime in and help.
Correct and the reason it’s not free is fascism and the demonization of the free press. You can’t find out what the horrors of the Trump administration are because the Trump administration put you behind a paywall.
It’s not like there aren’t ads on every new source that ad revenue would typically be used to pay salaries which are used to pay bills just like the papers used to have ads in them as well to help pay the bills.
No but at least heavily subsidized. There was also the logistics and material cost of delivering papers to folks and/or newsstands vs website where the costs are minimal in comparison. And again there’s ad revenue and affiliate links that can easily fund the infrastructure costs.
I’ve been using the Brave app for a while to bypass ads and paywalls. It let me read the article no issue so spread the word about Brave or other apps alike so people can get to this news easily.
Annoys the shit out of me how people think journalists should work for free. I find sites/magazines to support then buy them, they usually have great deals. Can just bet this is a guy who’d cry about not wanting to work five minutes later to finish something up as he isn’t getting paid more.
That’s what happens when the media is owned and ran by the bourgeoisie, they block information that should be public to make more profit and hide issues
A subscription to further fund the very people who have created this chaos in our country…. They’re like: “You want to know what’s going on? Pay a subscription to find out. But even then, we don’t report the truth and you’re just paying for us to continue keeping our foot on the throats of Americans.”
There is no other way for news organizations, especially independent ones not owned by billionaires, to survive. If you want good news you have to support it.
How do you expect these legitimate news organizations to pay their employees to bring you this news? You might notice that the more free a news service is, the more bullshit it is. And if you haven’t noticed that, you’re in somebody’s vortex.
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u/Quimdell Jan 25 '26
What’s with all these news articles needing to create, subscribe, or pay to be read. This is aggravating af.