“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings found in handwritten letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

In early February there were more than 750 families, nearly half of them including children, as well as some 370 single adult women being held at this facility. It is just one of many immigration centers across the country, but the only one holding families.