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Swede

(38,959 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:09 PM 19 hrs ago

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family.

This is not gonna look good to anyone normal.

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family.

What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T13:02:18.359Z
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Deuxcents

(26,270 posts)
1. Doesn't matter where they're from..it's not safe to come here. I can't believe I'm saying this about my country
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:14 PM
19 hrs ago

chowder66

(12,068 posts)
5. She overheard one immigration officer tell another that if she had been 10 years old....ProPublica
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 05:31 PM
18 hrs ago

Maria Antonia had learned English at her private school in Medellin. She overheard one immigration officer tell another that if she had been 10 years old, they would have been able to keep her separated from her mom. That, she said, is when the real fear set in.

By the time I met them, they had been detained for nearly four months. I asked Maria Antonia what being stuck in Dilley was like. She told me she had fainted two times since she got there; she is vegetarian and said she ate mostly beans. She felt like she had nothing to do all day and she missed her school, echoing concerns of many of the other kids I spoke with over the course of my reporting. She said she had made some new friends inside Dilley, but it was hard. She and her mom had been detained for so long that new people she met would often leave when they were released or deported.

Her mother, Maria Alejandra, had told me in long, vivid emails about some of more serious concerns about her and her daughter’s deteriorating mental and physical health during their prolonged detention. She said Maria Antonia would wake up in the middle of the night crying, fearful she would never leave detention or alternatively that she would be separated from her mom.

I learned an immigration judge had granted them “voluntary departure” on Jan. 6, allowing Maria Alejandra to pay their own way back to Colombia, avoid having a formal deportation order on her record and continue her green card application from abroad. But it wasn’t until Feb. 6 that they were finally sent back to Colombia.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story

flvegan

(66,077 posts)
7. 9 year old girl "detained" makes me fucking cringe.
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 06:00 PM
18 hrs ago

Who knows what they are/will actually do with her and when.

Trump's pedo machine needs to be fed, I fear.

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