Kids Everywhere Say ICE Out: The Tuesday AM Quickie 2/10/26

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2/10: Sam and Emma are in situ today and their guests are Melissa Sanchez and Jodi Cohen, ProPublica journalists on to discuss their recent piece, “The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building.”

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Today you’ll read about children describing the concentration camps Trump forced them to live in, the high schoolers demanding an end to immigration raids, and the San Francisco teachers’ strike.

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The Clampdown: Kids Everywhere Say ICE Out 

• Children Describe Horror of Texas Concentration Camp One 12-year-old said doctors at the Dilley immigration prison treat sick people by telling them to drink water, but “it seems the water is what makes people sick here.” That is just one of the several first-hand accounts collected from kids imprisoned at Dilley, where there are more than 750 families, almost half of which have children. “The number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed, increasing sixfold.” via ProPublica. 
• High Schoolers Across the US Demand End to Immigration Terror Campaign Thousands of high school students are fighting the deportation machine, regardless of the risk or whether they have the support of adults. Like the children who told ProPublica what they were going through in Texas, high schoolers across the country described in their own words why they are asking for no one’s permission to take a stand. “You have to care for your community, you have to look out for your friends, your family, your found family. All of it is so important,” said Lark, a 16-year-old in Maryland. “Even though by protesting and talking about this, you are putting your heart out there, you are allowing it to get beat up and you’re allowing your feelings to get hurt, you can’t let these feelings of hopelessness and despair take over. You have to remain involved. And if even we can do it, so can you.” via The Guardian. 
• Small Idaho Town Loses 4 Percent of Population in Raid The October attack on Wilder deported 75 people out of the total population of 1,725 and “nearly destroyed” the community; the full extent of the damage won’t be known until planting season begins in a few months. via the NYT. 
• US Regime Coordinating With Israel to Deport Bound, Shackled Palestinians to West Bank in Trump Associate’s Private Jet “Aside from the many irregularities with the deportation of eight Palestinians on a private jet and no due process, this transfer also violates the principle of non-refoulement, which prohibits the forcible return of individuals to a country where there are substantial grounds for believing that the person would be at risk of irreparable harm upon return, including persecution, torture, ill treatment or other serious human rights violations,” said Gissou Nia, director of the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council. via 972 Magazine.
• Irish National With Valid Work Permit Languishing in ICE Prison for Five Months Seamus Culleton has been in the US for more than 20 years, is married to a US citizen and owns a plastering business in the Boston area; ICE arrested him in September and has kept him in a Texas concentration camp even though a judge approved his release in November and his wife paid the required $4,000 bond. Culleton said there is not enough food, the toilets are filthy, and he’s only been allowed outside for air and exercise a few times since his imprisonment. The camp, he said, is rife with “anxiety and depression.” via The Irish Times. 
• Border Czar Tom Homan Increasingly Targeting Legal Observers in Minnesota The sentient ham with a fake job title said the Trump administration will lose support if it doesn’t stick to deporting only criminals. Then he turned around and told Minnesota legal observers to “end the resistance” and started targeting them even more. via The Intercept and NBC News.  
• Rubio’s State Department Slams Door on London Elites The US embassy in London is denying visas to tech and C-suite executives for bar fights, drunk driving, and smoking weed; “some of those denied visas had arrests on their records but not convictions.” via the Financial Times.