Joey Palacios

Hey, good morning.

So this was at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

That's about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.

And as the name says, it's for detained immigrant families.

Now, this protest that happened, it was peaceful.

There was chanting.

There were people holding signs that said, abolish ICE or bring Liam home.

And here there were people of all ages.

It started at a city park, and they marched to the front gate of the center that was about two miles away.

There, they were met by a handful of state troopers, and behind those state troopers, about 60 feet away, were about a dozen masked ICE agents.

Gabrielle Felix was one of the protesters who came because of Liam Ramos.

So and then all of a sudden, as these folks were at the gate of the center, a school bus drove up and it was full of state troopers in riot gear.

They formed a line and then began moving towards protesters.

And there was some pushing back and forth.

And then there was like this pop, pop, pop.

And they started to use pepper balls to disperse the crowd.

There were more.

There was another loud pop and a lot more.

white smoke and it started to hit me and our producer Sam as well as other protesters and other media there and it was hard to breathe we couldn't see Leila it was like breathing hot sauce it was not pleasant and in the end Texas DPS said that two people were arrested for resisting arrests and interfering with public duties

Right.