Chapter 1: What are the experiences of children detained by ICE?
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Just eight months later, two teenage brothers in the band were detained along with the rest of their family by ICE. Most of the family ended up at a detention center in Dilley, Texas, and there was immediate outrage. This is a family that came here through the legal process. For all we know, there are great, great kids doing mariachi and enjoying life.
And yet, the Trump administration has them sitting in a prison in Dilley, Texas. All that outrage got the entire family out early. Less lucky are the kids who don't end up with massive campaigns to get them out of detention. On Today Explained, we're going to find out what it's like to be a kid detained at Dilley. Chances are your favorite websites used to depend on Google for traffic and money.
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Chapter 2: How did a family of musicians end up in ICE detention?
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Hello, my name is Ariana V. I'm 14 years old and I'm from Honduras. I've been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here.
I met Ariana when she was detained in the Dilley Immigration Detention Center in South Texas.
I've been in this country for almost seven years, and in those seven years, my mom and I found a home and made a bigger family.
She was a high school freshman in New York, and she went in with her mom for their regular ICE check-in, which they had actually been doing for years last December. And they went in in the morning, and by that evening, they were sent across the country to Texas to a detention center.
Since I got to this center, all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression.
I had been corresponding with her mother and who actually has two U.S. citizen children, a toddler who's almost two and a five-year-old. And they were left behind because this particular detention center, you know, can't hold U.S. citizens.
I have never been separated from my siblings. And it's honestly sad because they're little and they need their mom and their sister.
They ended up in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, which is the nation's only immigration detention center that's operating right now for families. The Biden administration actually ended the practice of family detention in 2021. But when Trump was reelected, he quickly reopened this facility for families.
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Chapter 3: What is the emotional impact of detention on children?
Hello. I am Ender, and I am 12 years old. I have been at this center for two months.
My name is Usage F, and I'm nine years old. They didn't understand why they were there. They said that they weren't criminals, and, you know, they thought that the administration would be going after criminals. ICE used me to catch my mom, and now I am in jail, and I'm sad, and I have fainted two times here inside. When I arrived, every night I cried, and now I don't sleep well. Antonia, age 9.
They missed their friends, they missed their teachers, they missed their homes. I don't want to be in this place. I want to go to my school. I miss my grandparents. I miss my friends.
Me at age seven.
I have a home and school. I get bored a lot and I don't know what to do. Gabby, age 14. Kids are being damaged mentally. They witness how their parents and other people are being treated.
So this facility, you know, at the time that I was meeting her there, was holding hundreds of people, parents and families together, where up to 12 people are sharing a room together. Some of the families told me about, you know, food where they said that they found worms in the food or that it was moldy. The food is bad. I feel so much sadness and depression of not being able to leave.
They don't give me my diet. I'm vegetarian. I don't eat well. There's no good education. And I miss my best friend, Julieta. Another kid that I met was Alexander Perez, a 15-year-old from the Dominican Republic. He told me about what it was like to go to school at Dilley. 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.
To get any medicine, pill or anything, it takes a while. There are various viruses in here. People are always sick.
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Chapter 4: What conditions do children face in the Dilley detention center?
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