Immigrants
2017
2017-01-20 The Trump administration considered using child separation from their mothers as a way to deter asylum-seekers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
2017-05-01 The Criminal Consequence Initiative was implemented in Yuma, AZ to prosecute first-time border crossers and allow agents to separate children from parents as young as 10 months old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
2023
2023-09-29 During the Benny Show, Mike Davis stated, quote, “We’re gonna put kids in cages, it’s going to be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lotta people, Seig Gulag.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gonna-put-kids-cages-meet-200752325.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-likely-ag-mike-davis-were-going-to-put-kids-in-cages/
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mike-davis-trump-attorney-general-20231119.html
2024
2024-12-16 A Human Rights Watch article analyzed the deliberate use of child separation as a deterrent, as well as citing stats that 1,360 children have never been reunited with their parents after 6 years.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/16/us-lasting-harm-family-separation-border
2025
2025-02-14 Rerouting agents to immigration enforcement started to take agents away from drug, weapon and child trafficking investigations.
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117980/documents/HHRG-119-GO00-20250305-SD017.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/ice-trump-democrats-letter
2025-08-31 In the shroud of night, Kristi Noem had ICE agents load a plane up with Guatemalan children for deportation. A judge stepped in to bar the flight from taking off.
2025-11-24 By the end of 2025, ICE placed a record 600 immigrant kids into detention shelters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations
2026 January
2026-01-29 ICE detained 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father in the Dilley Texas detention center.
The child had stopped eating, was lethargic, and was going through depression.
One article quoted an attorney as saying, “It’s way worse than people think. The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it”.
After this got national attention the child and his father were released in February on judge orders. The father said ICE agents refused medical treatment for the child during custody.
One article wrote that shortly after the father and son were released, the detention center had an outbreak of an active measles infection.
The Trump administration said they planned to appeal the release.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/us/liam-ramos-joaquin-castro-visit
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/29/dilley_tx_ice_jail_family_detention
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwynzw7jd4go
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liam-conejo-ramos-released-ice-custody/
2026 March
2026-03-18 YouTube celebrity Ms. Rachel and dozens of celebrities banded together to get a petition going calling for the immediate closure of Dilley detention center in Texas. The YouTuber and children’s entertainer spoke out after hearing directly from children in the Texas ICE facility describing emotional torture and horrendous conditions. Her petition can be found at Change.org/.
https://www.change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children
https://www.instagram.com/msrachelforlittles
https://www.youtube.com/@msrachel
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/ms-rachel-texas-ice-letter-22160474.php
https://www.chron.com/news/article/dilley-ice-children-videos-22083880.php
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ms-rachel-ice-dilley-detention-center-accurso/