Micah Rosenberg

He said school was limited to, you know, an hour a day.

It was in these classes that were mixed with a bunch of different ages and were capped at 12 kids.

There was, you know, handouts and worksheets that, you know, were sort of too simple.

So, you know, a lot of boredom, a lot of, you know, sickness because so many kids were packed together.

One baby who I met who on video call was, you know, waving at me and blowing kisses, her name was Amalia.

She was 18 months old.

And, you know, she was really adorable to look at on the call, but she had just recently ended up being hospitalized.

She was diagnosed with COVID and RSV, and it developed into pneumonia and bronchitis, and she was in a very serious state.

After more than a week in the hospital, that family was transferred back into detention.

Some of the parents told me about more difficult instances of, you know, kids who had actually tried to harm themselves or talked about suicide.

The Trump administration and ICE and CoreCivic, the private prison operator that runs the facility, they said that, you know, no one is denied medical care and that they

you know, take health and safety standards, you know, as of most importance.

But this was the experiences that we heard from the detainees inside.

So there is this longstanding legal settlement that's basically been in place since the 1990s.

It's called the Flores Agreement.

And it gives sort of general guidelines that children shouldn't be held in immigration detention for longer than 20 days.

Okay.

The Trump administration has argued that this settlement is outdated, that there's new rules and regulations that govern the detention of children and families that are now in place and that this settlement should be terminated.

The families who have been detained at Dili, there's hundreds of them that we found through our analysis have been held past, you know, past that limit.

113 days in detention and I miss my friends.