February 13, 2026
A 7-year-old in Oregon was seeking treatment for a nosebleed last month when immigration agents detained her and her parents outside a hospital emergency room. They were taken to a federal detention center in Texas for three weeks.
In Chicago, a 5-year-old was at a laundromat with her mother last fall when they were surrounded by agents and flown to Texas.
“You can make all sorts of improvements to Dilley, but it’s still going to be a prison.
Leecia Welch, chief legal counsel at Children’s Rights
You can improve education, and they should, but it will still be a place with sick, sad children.”