Mica Rosenberg

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Read more about what children at the Dilley detention center are going through in their own words in these stories: www.propublica.org/article/life... and www.propublica.org/article/dill...

DHS, which oversees ICE, said “no one is denied medical care” at the Dilley facility and detained parents have the option to be deported together. CoreCivic, the facility operator, said health and safety is top priority and that medical staff met “the highest standards” 3/

The letter from health professionals says the detention of immigrant children “is causing predictable, severe, and lasting harm to their mental and physical health” and that “even brief confinement can cause psychological trauma and life long harm” 2/

End Child Detention Letter with signatures Feb 26 2026

Citing reporting by @propublica.org and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

Christian wanted people to know what immigrant families like hers were going through inside the Dilley detention center, so she gathered dozens of letters and hid them in her jacket. She and others told me and @mckenziefunk.com its becoming harder to speak out www.propublica.org/article/dill...

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

I met Maria Antonia inside Dilley in mid-Jan where she had been detained for four months. She told me she was on her way to Disney World when immigration agents intercepted and interrogated her in the airport and sent her and her mom to detention www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.

Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.

Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Here is more on the mothers and children being held in immigration detention in south Texas: www.propublica.org/article/life...

Letters from some of the children I spoke to at the Dilley family detention centers being read in Congress

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Read our full story that details how we got inside the Dilley detention center for immigrant families here: www.propublica.org/article/life...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

DHS, which oversees ICE, said “no one is denied medical care” at the facility and detained parents have the option to be deported together. CoreCivic, which operates Dilley, said that health and safety is top priority and that medical staff met “the highest standards of care” 9/

My research colleague Gabriel Sandoval obtained 911 logs from Dilley that had calls about toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman passing out and a girl with seizures. Three calls were about alleged sexual assault between detainees. 8/

Moms told me there were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide. Kids lost their appetites after finding worms in their food and were constantly sick. Recently, there were also measles cases at the center. 7/

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra from Colombia was detained on her way to Disney World. She told me when I met her that what was supposed to be a 10-day dream vacation to the park’s Halloween celebration turned into a 100+ day nightmare at Dilley. 6/

While a long-standing legal settlement generally limits the time children can be held in immigration detention to 20 days, the Trump administration kept hundreds of kids at Dilley for more than a month, @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social found 5/

Remember Liam Conejo, whose bunny hat photo went viral? He was released from Dilley, but he is only one of the many children who have been sent there. My colleague @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social found 3,550 detainees, more than half of them minors, cycled through the center under Trump 4/

I met 14-year-old Ariana from Honduras, who was released into the U.S. with her mom during the first Trump administration when she was 7. She was a freshman in high school when she was detained in December and separated from her two siblings, who are U.S. citizens 3/

Trump restarted family detention, but it’s different now. Before, the family facility in Dilley, Texas, primarily housed recent border crossers. Now, parents and children who have been living for years in the United States are being detained there. 2/

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

ICYMI another must read by my colleagues

Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?

Important read: I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o... via @NYTOpinion

YouTube video by ProPublica What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut

An informative and devastating video about the incredible reporting by my @propublica.org colleagues on the deadly consequences of the dismantling of USAID youtu.be/G7TeKNU_Dps?... via
@YouTube

What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

Powerful dispatch from my colleagues www.propublica.org/article/minn...

'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents? The number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has doubled over the past year -- driven by a massive recruitments campaign. Who the new recruits are and how they’re being trained.

I was on @wbur.org's On Point today, discussing what I witnessed the past few days while reporting on ICE raids for @propublica.org in Minnesota www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

A new directive asks USDA workers to check backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists. Their names are being sent to security experts. One critic called it a “throwback to McCarthyism. By my @propublica.org colleagues www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

NEW: @propublica.org found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing

“I felt like I was going to die” said a 16-yr-old citizen.

@nicolefoy.bsky.social & @mckenziefunk.com report
www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Deported to a country you've never heard of Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 01/07/2026 · 26m

Don't miss @propublica.org's @micarosenberg.bsky.social on @vox.com's Today Explained podcast discussing 3rd country deportations under the Trump administration podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...