Gut Wrenching Letters from Kids in ICE Concentration Camps Leak to the Press

0:04We're seeing how ICE treats people on the streets, how they throw tear gas at preschools. Now we're learning what's going on inside these detention facilities that house children. And this is a tape of a girl reading the letter that she wrote about her life in a detention center. Hello, my name is Ariana V. I'm 14 years old and I'm from Honduras. I've been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here. Every time I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras, a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and I. My younger siblings haven't been able to see their mom in more than a month.

0:53They're very young and you need both of your parents when you're growing up. Since I got to the center, all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression. I haven't been getting any school time either, or the other kids in here. Every single person in here had their jobs, they had their lives, they aren't in danger for this country. All kids are being damaged mentally. They witness how their parents and other people are being treated. They don't have schools or doctors. It's so devastating. And there was a big ProPublica article about this where a reporter interviewed the people, they published the letters.

1:38This is the response from puppy and goat killer, Kristi Noem. It is now being reported that Trump's federal agents at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, are raiding the dormitories of the kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This happened after the ProPublica published multiple letters from the children, like the one below from Ariana V. Whatever happened to free speech, this is like 1930s Germany. And that's from Ed Krasenstein. And this, when I read the letters that these children had written, and to know that the response was not to improve conditions or provide health care or school, but to confiscate the letters, it was darker than what I even imagined.

2:31And what I imagined was pretty fucking dark. This is so devastating. And this is such a stain on the American government, on the American people, on the United States of America. And this is where I start to, I expect this from Donald Trump. I expect this from Kristi Noem. I expect it from J.D. Vance. I expect it from people that triple Trump to not care. I have heard from my experience in living in Oklahoma, I have heard people dehumanize black and brown kids my whole life. I've heard white folk do this and won't make space for empathy for those little girls. So this is where I go, OK, I'm not going to try to get a reaction out of sociopaths and psychopaths that are the MAGA regime or the MAGA supporters because I know they're incapable of it and they're broken.

3:27I know that. This is where I laser focus on Hakeem Jeffries, on Chuckle Schumer, and the fact that they're playing patty cake and potentially going to give Kristi Noem more money. And then I have to go, okay, why? Why are they doing this? Why is this okay? Why are they doing this? Oh, I forgot. But AIPAC broke them because they have given Israel a blank check to genocide the Palestinian people. And a lot of people probably be like, oh, that's not connected to this. And it is exactly connected to this. Because if you have an opposition party that picks and chooses which children they care about and which children they don't care about, and children don't have universal human rights, Right.

4:16Once you start ceding some territory with Palestinian kids and Benjamin Netanyahu can do whatever the fuck he wants to do and he can kill disproportionately kill all of these children in Palestine, then this is not going to affect you as much if you're Hakeem or Chuckles. This isn't going or Cory Booker. This isn't going to penetrate you because you've already got your hands dirty and killing kids with taxpayer money somewhere else. So what's giving Christy now a little bit more? Why would you want to all of a sudden go abolish ICE? This is Nazi shit. This is not the United States of America. We need to abolish ICE.

4:52They can't say it because their hands are dirty elsewhere. And I believe there's triple Trumping broke Republicans and the blank check to Israel to commit a genocide broke Democrats. And that's why the Democratic leadership is not rising to this occasion. This is horrific. This is generational trauma from these kids. And I saw online today, Pumps, I saw if you happen to be a white person, be the type of white person that pisses off white supremacists. And so all I know to do right now is to keep applying pressure to these corporate Democrats and calling them out and calling out the moral duplicity, because I expect every single bit of this from MAGA.

5:42I do not expect triple Trumpers to have empathy for that little girl. They're incapable of it. No, I completely agree. And it sent chills down my neck when you said, which children are you going to be OK to kill? And that's kind of where we are, because you're so right. I mean, it's really terrifying. And then this has been all over the headlines. So we have Joaquin Castro. He has an update on Juan Nicholas, who is a baby that has been in DHS custody at the ICE facility in Dilley, Texas for half of his life. And he says, I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the two-month-old baby detained at Dilley and his mother.

6:23Me and my team have been in contact with Juan's family. Juan has bronchitis, according to his mom. and at some point in the last several hours, he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today. Juan's mom went in front of an immigration judge this morning. She was told she will be deported, but was not told when or where. Both Juan and his mom are back at Dilley and their future remains uncertain. We are deeply concerned about Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan's health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE's monstrous cruelty.

7:04I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them. And you think about the people that are being deported to other countries. I just read an article that the U.S. is sending like secret planes of people to all these different countries. They're not from those countries. So I'm like, they don't know where their children are. What's going to happen to this two-month-old baby? His entire life, he's lived in this detention facility. Well, half of his life, I should say. He goes to the hospital because he's unresponsive. You hear story after story like this. And like you said, it's the generational trauma.

7:47It is the separation of the children that the little girl was talking about. She has other children or other siblings that aren't in ICE custody. What happens to them? Who's taking care of them? And the answer is this administration and the people that support it don't give a shit. Whether it's a two-month-old baby, a 14-year-old girl, or a 70-year-old person that's been here their whole lives. It is so upsetting to me. I mean, I could cry over it. It's so bad. No, it's, it's horrific. And when I think about how Fox news plays such a huge part in demonizing immigrants. And then I think about as an interior designer for 25 years, I spent all of my career on job sites around immigrants.

8:34It's why I know how to cuss in Spanish. Why I told Megan Kelly, Chinga tu Madre, Puta, because I hang out with all these guys on job sites. And I've always seen immigration as such a net positive. This whole mindset of people that are so cruel towards immigrants, I don't understand it, but my God, have I been around it. My God, have I seen so many white people that are so critical of immigrants, yet they're the first at the Mexican restaurant. They're the first to exploit the cheap labor. They're the first to say, oh, I've got some Mexicans that can come over here and paint it, or I've got some Mexicans that can do my yard.

9:09Like they're their little, like they own them. and these are the worst humans among us. And it's just something that we're going to have to consistently in the aftermath of this and in the resistance of this, we're going to have to call out these people, these people that have no problem dehumanizing little kids. And the rod in this is big. The rod in this is really big in American culture. It's a new year and time to get back to feeling like yourself. If losing weight is one of your 2026 plans and you're ready to make progress, you can count on. The weight loss by hers might be right for you.

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11:29Like that was everywhere. And I think you're right. I think you have to call it out because it becomes such a way of life that people are able to humanize everybody, Black people. Now, they're going after women on Fox News under this voting bill. They will attack anybody and people, because in my mind, the evangelical Christian narcissism, that you're better, you're entitled, you get to stand in judgment of other people. I think it all is right there together. And then just one thing when I think about Juan getting the treatment, that I saw this of a man, Judge Tana Lynn ruled, ICE medical neglect turned a detention center into unconstitutional punishment, a Filipino detainee who begged for hospital care for months, lost part of his foot after delayed treatment and denied antibiotics.

12:24And that's what I think bronchitis, this little boy, this man lost his foot. We've heard of women that have miscarried in these facilities. They're being denied medical care because they're being treated as worse than animals. And while you have Randy Fine bitching about no dogs in New York. I bet he gives his dog antibiotic, but they're so willing to turn no medical care and to turn on people and not give them any empathy. It is absolutely not surprising, but it is like you said, it's a huge rot. And this is going to get worse because they're spending billions of dollars now to acquire warehouses.

13:07And these warehouses are going to be for storing human beings. And a lot of scholars, I think, would probably refer to these as concentration camps, where they are going to concentrate people. And you have to remind people at these moments that Hitler went after not just Jewish people, but people who were not loyal to him, gay people, people that tried to hide and or protect and advocate for their Jewish neighbor. They also too were sent to these camps. I mean, the big bulk of it were obviously Jewish people, but this administration, and particularly this leader, campaigned on something that has always been whispered in the Republican Party.

13:50They always put on this facade of decorum, but they cannot stand open-minded, critical thinking, being educated liberal democracy. They don't like it. And when I say liberal democracy, they don't even understand what that means. They think I'm talking about liberal versus conservative. They don't even understand the historical thing about being a liberal democracy. But I read online, I thought this is really good. It's that Sarah Longwell from The Bulwark, and she posted that Democrats that are campaigning right now, instead of saying, we have to defend democracy. They should take the word democracy out and just put it in America.

14:29We should defend America. We should defend our rights and not, and I thought that was really good messaging. Yeah, no. And did you hear, I don't know if you saw this, but in Germany, in the parliament, someone, a representative of Germany was talking about ice and ice raids and what they're doing to people in the United States. And I thought, you know, it's bad when they're talking in Germany and point out the inhumane treatment of people in the United States because they've seen it, they've lived it. And so it's just, it's everybody's noticing, everybody across the world. All right. Please like this video, subscribe to our channel, and we'll be back with more news.