Opinion | Trump slashed our funding — and the only chance for thousands of kids to get a fair shot in immigration court

More and more kids, and even babies, are being forced to show up for immigration court alone without lawyers, adequate resources or protection.

Opinion | 3 ways you can stand against the cruelty of family immigration detention

Elora Mukherjee: Children held in Dilley detention center face panic attacks, malnutrition and suicidal ideation. We must call on our representatives to stop the cruelty.

Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

Children do not deserve immigration detention.

Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility — ProPublica

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

Kids in ICE Detention Up 10x in Trump’s Second Term

Advocates warn trauma from detentions will cause kids lifelong damage.

ICE Has Placed a Record 600 Immigrant Kids in Federal Shelters This Year — ProPublica

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

Dilley Immigration Processing Center

The South Texas Family Residential Center (also called Dilley Immigration Processing Center) is an immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas. First opened in December 2014, under Barack Obama, it has a capacity of 2,400 and is intended to detain mainly women and children from Central America.[2] United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) closed the detention center in June 2024, citing cost savings to add more beds in other facilities as the Biden administration implemented new border restrictions. It reopened the following year, in 2025.[3]