DILLEY, Texas – A small group of protesters gathered outside the ICE detention center in Dilley as renewed calls grew from Texas lawmakers demanding the release of children and families being held there, including the Uzcategui-Laborador family from Alamo Heights.<\/p>\n
The protest and a visit by members of Congress came days after two children from Alamo Heights and their stepmother were detained and taken to the Dilley facility. The two children, Victor Jr. and Monseratt, and their stepmother, Betania, were detained last week by ICE agents. The family is originally from Venezuela and came to the U.S. in 2021.<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro was among the lawmakers who toured the Dilley detention facility, then held a news conference in downtown San Antonio less than an hour after the visit. Castro said both children were in tears during his visit but were grateful to hear about support from the community calling for their release.<\/p>\n
Castro also criticized the circumstances surrounding the detention, saying, \u201cThat tactic is not unusual, either being targeted at a bus stop where kids wait for the school bus or being lied to be ice under donald trump’s administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, condemned the detention of children, saying, \u201cA jail is no place for children .. this is a baby jail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Castro said lawmakers have been in contact with Victor and Monseratt\u2019s father as they try to determine the next best course of action. He said the family has filed for habeas corpus to challenge what they believe is unlawful detention and to attempt to move forward with their asylum case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DILLEY, Texas – A small group of protesters gathered outside the ICE detention center in Dilley as renewed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-280658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}