Micah Rosenberg

I feel that they're going to forget me.

So a lot of the people that we spoke with, especially after we asked the administration about specific cases, have been subsequently released.

Some of them have been released into the U.S.

Others have been deported.

There's not a clear pattern to who was released and who wasn't.

The center really sort of burst onto the public stage after the arrest of Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old who was arrested in Minnesota in his little blue bunny hat.

And, you know, once he was taken there, there was a lot of public outrage.

You know, Congress members started trying to visit there.

And the detainees themselves staged a protest in the yard.

One of the things that we heard from detainees after all of that happened is that they had experienced guards confiscating art supplies like colored pencils and crayons and paper and things that they had used to, you know, write these protest signs and the letters.

In past weeks, you know, some of their communications like Gmail and Google services were cut off.

After I met with Arianna and her mother in Texas, they were released, and I was there after they were reunited with their family in New York.

It was really quite moving, obviously, and I think one thing we've been seeing in our reporting is not only the effect that these detentions are having on the kids who are actually detained, but then on the kids who are left on the outside.

Adriana's little siblings, in the case of Jacob, he was afraid to go to kindergarten in the morning because he was worried that his mom and his sister wouldn't be there when he came home.

You know, he finally was convinced to go back to school, but he wanted to spend the whole night in her bed and, you know, was really affected by their sort of sudden disappearance from their lives.

You know, a lot of the kids said that, you know, there wasn't a whole lot to do at Dilley.

A lot of them ended up, you know, playing sports.

And one of the things that was there was a volleyball net.

And so, you know, Ariana told me that she ended up playing a lot of volleyball in Dilley.

When she ended up going back to her high school in New York, she was playing volleyball in gym and realized that she had actually gotten a lot better and was better than some of the kids at the school.