Dilley

So really just upend the way that the detention system works.

And so as we are trying to, you know, fight to shut down facilities like the Alexandria facility, um, like we did Alligator Alcatraz, like we're trying to shut down Dilley, the other family detention facility, Campese, Montana, and Texas, and other cruel detention centers across the country, we also have to recognize that this entire system is broken.

And so, you know, aligned with our call, our call to abolish ICE, we're also calling for this Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act to be passed into law because our detention system is, um, operating well outside human rights obligations, and we're seeing the death toll rise and the, uh, system expand to new levels of cruelty and with more and more people inside each day.

Quick follow-up on that.

That was my co-host Mickey Huff's conversation with Banned Books Week Honorary Chair Marshall Romero.

And because we have just a little bit of time left on this week's program, here is a short excerpt from next week's show where I welcome back to the program San Antonio independent journalist Stephanie Coithan to talk about updates from Dilley Concentration Camp, the only family concentration camp in the country, as well as the data center boom, and how what's happening in Texas is an important lens through which to view our current and upcoming struggles nationally.

They seem to be deporting children before they beca- they become a viral sensation.

There's just so much, and there's, there's so much pain and, um, you know, just destroying families.

They keep deporting people right before Congressman Castro is set to speak with them, and of course, then he amplifies their story, then I amplify his story, then state media amplifies the story, then it's a national story, and they're just cutting that off at the bud.

So I just want people to be aware that they are deliberately silencing these, these heart-wrenching stories when it's someone, a, a cute kid that would get a lot of national sympathy and attention.

Another thing that I want to put a pin in for everybody on this program tuning in is that ICE no longer is keeping track of people who die after they are detained, and that is a huge metric in the carceral system because it helps you gauge how-How inmates are treated and, you know, the quality of care, we already know that's abysmal at Dilley.

Worms in the food, worms in the water, the water smelling weird, the medical facilities unstaffed largely, which is why people get rushed to the emergency room.

every Monday night.

I mean, she has all these people out in Dilley, Texas, protesting the detention center there.

Alexandria, Virginia.

There's a huge thing there.

And you know what? A lot of them have been very, uh, successful because I, uh, watch her show, tape her show if I can't watch it or record it every, every Monday night.

I mean, she has all these people out in Dilley, Texas, protesting the detention center there.

Alexandria, Virginia, this huge thing there.

Margie wrote these down by the way.

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... and in Winton, North Carolina, and the, you know, the weekly vigils that are out at Dilley, where they're holding kids and moms in Texas, at Fort Bliss, at Camp East, Montana-

Mm-hmm

... where they've got this huge tent city that they built.