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Dilley, Texas — Yesterday, beloved educator and child advocate, Ms. Rachel, posted to her nearly five million followers on Instagram her concern for the children detained at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) South Texas Family Detention Center (nicknamed Dilley) in Dilley, Texas. The National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention, composed of more than 40 organizations across the country, applauds Ms. Rachel, and calls on all elected leaders and prominent individuals with public platforms to demand children and their parents be released from Dilley immediately, a permanent end…

Washington, DC – As the U.S. government under the Trump administration continues its attacks on immigrant communities, the National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention this week launched Paper Dolls to Free Families, a campaign to bring awareness to the cruel practice of family detention and to demand that lawmakers stop jailing immigrant children and their families. Family detention has received a swell of backlash in recent weeks after the jailing of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was released with his father from the Dilley Family Detention Center in January. Children and…

Dilley, Texas — Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported at least two active measles cases at the South Texas Family Detention Center (Dilley). The ICE facility, which jails parents with their children–-including babies–-has a well-documented record of abuse, including medical neglect. Family detention, a policy that is widely condemned by the American public and was dormant for years prior to Trump’s return in 2025, has received a swell of backlash in recent weeks after the jailing of five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was released with his father from the…

Dilley, Texas — The demand to end family detention is gaining renewed momentum alongside calls to cut Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funding amidst growing outrage at ICE violence in Minneapolis, including the targeting of Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old who was abducted by ICE with his dad and later sent to the South Texas Family Detention Center (Dilley). Today, U.S. Congressional Representatives Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) and Joaquin Castro (TX-20) will be at the South Texas Family Detention Center to conduct an oversight visit. A press conference in San Antonio with the…

Dilley, Texas — Today news broke of the Trump administration beginning to detain families at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas (nicknamed Dilley). The facility will detain up to 2,400 families. The alarming return of family detention, a policy that was widely condemned and has been dormant for four years, is yet another layer of the Trump administration’s unprecedented and cruel expansion of immigration detention, that if fully realized will triple the current detention system. Families have largely not been subjected to family detention since the Biden administration…

Washington, DC — Yesterday news broke of the Trump administration beginning to detain families at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas (nicknamed Dilley). The facility will detain up to 2,400 families. The alarming return of family detention, a policy that was widely condemned and has been dormant for four years, is yet another layer of the Trump administration’s unprecedented and cruel expansion of immigration detention, that if fully realized will triple the current detention system. Families have largely not been subjected to family detention since the Biden…

Washington, DC — The Trump administration is preparing to publish a Request for Proposal (RFP) for private prison companies to reinstate family detention, according to new reporting. For the last three years, families have largely not been subjected to family detention since the Biden administration stopped detaining families at the Berks Detention Center in Pennsylvania, the Karnes Residential Center in Texas, and the South Texas Family Residential Center - proving that the U.S. can welcome families to the United States without jailing them. Family detention centers have a well-documented…