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Drawings by Children in Texas ICE Facility Are

A Cry for Help !

One letter spells out “AYUDA POR FAVOR” (“HELP PLEASE” in Spanish). Another translates to “I am nine years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals.”

These messages and other similar ones sprawl across the 91 pages that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized in February from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

Almost six months later, ICE has released scans of nine of those pages to podcast host Allison Gill after she filed a lawsuit in March.

The heartbreaking messages, seized by ICE from young children in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, were acquired by podcaster Allison Gill.

Gill, best known as the host of The Daily Beans news podcast, shared images of the nine pages on her Substack on August 3, the same day that ICE fulfilled her request. In February, Gill’s lawyer, Kel McClanahan, filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), demanding that ICE provide her with the letters seized from children detained in Dilley.

When she did not hear back, the podcast host filed a lawsuit asking for the documents. ICE deemed only nine of the 91 letters “responsive,” refusing to release the others because they allegedly qualify for exemptions under the FOIA.

Gill wrote in her Substack that these nine images alone were enough to elicit an overwhelming sense of “terror and cruelty.” The scans, which Gill shared with Hyperallergic, include blank coloring pages depicting cartoon bears surrounded by hearts, and an elephant with a flower tucked behind its ear. One, which depicts a scene from the popular children’s TV series Bluey (2018–), is partially colored in. Two pages read “LIBERTAD” (“LIBERTY”) in large, impactful letters, and two others are scrawled with pleas for help.

In a letter dated February 10, the nine-year-old author depicts themself and their mother, father, and two siblings (ages seven and 15) trapped behind bars.

“Please, a federal judge see this letter and help us,” the child writes above their stick-figure drawing. “We have been here for 47 days.” ICE redacted the child’s name and other parts of their short message with the FOIA exemptions code (b)(6), (b)(7)(C) and (b)(7)(E). “Leave us in your country, don’t deport us,” the letter ends.

(A nine-year-old child in detention at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center asked for legal aid and to help them “get out of this jail.”)

Words: Anna Lee

Same-sex marriage is still not legal in India, the biggest population in the world and also the country with the largest queer population. Trans people are being attacked by the government with stupid bills. No education system. We are failing. Stop saying stupid things like conserving the culture when you don't know jackshit about it. Our culture respected queer folks, women, education and punished the ones that deserve it. Our culture isn't about just gods, that you don't know shit about, atheism was accepted. Our culture was about helping people no matter their background, and equality. Krishna, the god's avatar and a king, washed his friends feet with his own tears, not even as a god or a king he was above Sudama, the poor brahman (a priest or scholar, not a caste thing) . Stop trying to return India to it's former glory, if that glory you are talking about comes from the twisted psychology the invaders used to divide us. Muslims were here ages before the Mughals or the Ottoman, do not call them invaders. Stop being stupid.