Since it reopened in March of 2025, the ICE Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas, has held around 3,500 people, more than half of them children.

The center was first opened in the Obama administration, shuttered by President Biden in 2021, then reopened under President Trump last year.

As reports of contaminated food and the spread of measles

have made national headlines,

ProPublica went inside the facility,

and through phone calls, letters, and emails

spoke to two dozen detainees about the treatment

of minors inside.

Michael Rosenberg of ProPublica joins me now.

Michael, welcome to the NewsHour.

Thanks for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me. So as you've been speaking with these detainees for weeks now,

half of them kids, we should just point out these are some of the kids you've been talking to

18-month-old, Amalia and her family. She's blowing kisses to the screen here. 13-year-old Gustavo, I know they're sharing

their experiences with you. Just tell us about what some of the common threads are, some of the

common stories you've heard from them. Well, I think one thing that really stands out in what's

happening in Dilley now is that, as you mentioned, this facility opened up during the

Obama administration and families were housed there, but they were mainly families who were coming

across the border and were there supposedly for a short period of time and hoping to be released

into the United States or to come here for the first time. But what's happening now is

many of the children that I spoke to are actually kids who've been living in the United States

some for years. And their families were picked up by ICE arrests in the interior, some of them

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