Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility

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Source: San Antonio Current

San Antonio News
Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE’s Dilley family detention facility

ICE officials informed members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the outbreak, immigration attorney Eric Lee said.

by Stephanie Koithan
February 1, 2026


DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend.
Credit: Michael Karlis

After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee.

Lee, who went viral last week for capturing the moment a protest broke out inside the facility, told the Current that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informed Senate Judiciary staff of the outbreak over the weekend. At least two cases have been confirmed at the facility as of press time, the attorney said. ... Over 400 children are detained at the Dilley facility, which currently holds approximately 1,200 detainees.

Speaking with the Current on the phone, Lee detailed the harsh conditions families already experience inside, including “food with worms, bugs in it.” Lee also described the putrid smell of the water families are forced to drink, which they also have no choice but to mix with baby formula. ... Lee represents a family of six inside the facility, including several small children.

One of the children, all of whom have spent a birthday in the facility, suffered from appendicitis and was told by staff to take a pain reliever. He was later rushed to the hospital to have his appendix removed after his condition had worsened. ... “He nearly died,” Lee said.

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Read more: https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/source-measles-outbreak-reported-at-ices-dilley-family-detention-facility/

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It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

— Jamal Greene (@jamalgreene.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T23:17:55.202Z

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Jamal Greene
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It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility.
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/source-measles-outbreak-reported-at-ices-dilley-family-detention-facility/

Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility
DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South
www.sacurrent.com
6:17 PM · Feb 1, 2026
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[SunSeeker]

1. OMG

[vapor2]

2. Betting they will do nothing about this

they don't care

[SunSeeker]

5. Yup. RFK Jr. thinks getting measles is no big deal. nt

[3catwoman3]

3. Oh, the irony of this phrase - "...Lee, who went viral last week..."

[bluedigger]

4. The free blankets gets them every time.

[gab13by13]

6. It's not a detention facility

it's a concentration camp.

[stage left]

8. No one should call these camps

detention facilities. They're concentration camps. The bad water, the bad food, and the bad treatment are meant to kill people.

[xocetaceans]

7. And thus the Trump-enabled fuck-ups begin to compound themselves. Maybe ICE can catch measles and be sidelined by it?

At least, one might plausibly imagine that the ICE-types might also typically be of a diehard strand of anti-vaxxing, freedumb-lubbin', thuggish morons who think that to enforce the law the law must be broken: of course, one problem with that supposition would be their paradoxical affinity for masking.

Hint to ICE: Secret police forces in reality are never the good guys. Batman and Robin, and the Lone Ranger aren't real, but the Gestapo was. Another infamous group that had the proclivity to wear masks (hoods) to maintain secrecy was the KKK. Even the fearful and cowardly ICE goons ought to be able to understand what groups they most closely resemble.

[C Moon]

9. Makes me think measles was planted there.

[Warpy]

10. Cram people together in warehouse conditions with rotten sanitation

and poor nutrition and then act all surprised when disease breaks out.

Hitler'searly playbook.