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Letters from ICE Detention | NLP Replay

Native Land Pod

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Join hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers, with guest-host Kevin Ortega-Rojas, for this segment from episode #118 that aired on 02-12-26 

 

Our hosts read letters from the Dilley Immigration Detention Center in Texas, where young children are being held. Thanks to ProPublica for gaining access to the detention center and for their excellent reporting. 

 

Read the ProPublica Article: https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters

 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media.

0:12.7

This country has its own history with internment camps thinking about Japanese internment.

0:18.5

And as we sit here in Black History Month, we are witnessing people who are black, who are brown,

0:25.4

who are Asian, who are also white, who are being held in, you know, modern-day internment camps.

0:31.1

And so I want to, if we can, Andrew Pivot to this recent ProPublica piece where there were letters shared from young people who are currently detained by ICE.

0:45.1

There's one where we can actually hear the words from the young lady herself, a 14-year-old Venezuelan girl.

0:51.6

And I also hope that we would also read the letters.

0:53.9

The link is over here in the chat if you guys need to see to pick a letter to read.

0:59.2

But I think we should read letters and then maybe we can end with Arianna.

1:04.3

In with Ariana's letter and then absolutely we can put the CTAs.

1:08.5

So I guess I can start.

1:11.1

I'm going to read a letter from a nine-year-old Susie, sorry, Susage.

1:19.6

Susage, sorry.

1:21.3

I don't know how to pronounce this.

1:22.3

This is S-U-S-E-J-F, a nine-year-old from Venezuela who's living in Houston, Texas, detained for 50 days. And this is her

1:30.3

letter. Hello, my name is Soussedge F is what it says. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing. And I am nine

1:37.0

years old. I am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

1:42.9

And I want to go to my country, but I miss my school and my

1:45.9

friends. I feel bad since when I came here to this place because I have been here too long. I have

1:51.8

been two years and six months in United States, and I was happy with my friends in the school,

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