Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwark. I am joined by my colleague, Adrian Keroskeo, who is the author of Huddle Masses, the must-go-to newsletter on immigration policy and what the hell's going on with ICE and deportations in this country.

We're recording. It's kind of like an emergency video on Sunday. It's like 8 p.m. I know this is going to come out on Monday. But the reason we are

doing this is because we've got some incredibly good breaking news that Adrian's going to deliver

to us based off of his last huddled masses. Adrian, why don't you just give us the rundown?

Yeah, so we wrote about Maria Zobrero, her three kids and her husband who were in the Dilly

Detention Center with a bunch of other kids,

a bunch of other families, right? And so this is the detention center. They got a bunch of

attention when Leon Ramos came from Minneapolis and was sent down there, the five-year-old. And we found

out there's all these other kids in there. So her story is she was in there and people believe she

has breast cancer. And so she's in there with her kids, her husband.

They actually were released after our story published.

So what I found out was that our story came out around 11 a.m.

on Friday and a few hours later, four hours later, her sister-in-law, who we

interviewed in the story, was reached out to

ideally to say basically, like, come pick up your sister-in-law and her family. And there's been

like persistent advocacy from Jasmine Crockett's office, the congresswoman, this woman, Carmen

Aliyala, who works for her, has been like doggedly advocating for these people, these women, pregnant women and their children.

But it's pretty remarkable that shortly after, you know, we reached out to DHS and we did the story that she was released a day later.

Yeah, there's a lot of things to unpack here.

First of all, it's incredible that she was released.

But it does raise the question.

Like, is this what it takes, right?

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