r/ICE_Raids

May 19, 2026 - PBS NewsHour. White House correspondent Liz Landers interviews Tara Watson of the Brookings Institution: brookings.edu/people/tara-watson

Here’s the Brookings research article: The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? - Brookings - May 18, 2026 (Research article)

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Here’s the full 6-minute segment on:

* PBS NewsHour’s website (with Transcript): What happens to children when immigrant parents are detained by ICE - May 19, 2026 (PBS NewsHour’s website)

* YouTube: What happens to children when immigrant parents are detained by ICE - PBS NewsHour - May 19, 2026 (YouTube)

From the video description: Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has detained nearly half a million immigrants, according to a new report. But the number of children they leave behind and what happens to them, most of whom are U.S. citizens, is largely unknown. White House correspondent Liz Landers discussed more with Tara Watson of the Brookings Institution.

PBS News: pbs.org/newshour

Donate to PBS News: go.pbsnews.org/support

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Over the last 24 hours, we’ve learned via local activists and independent journalist Nick Valencia that approximately 20 detainees being held at the notorious Adelanto ICE Processing Center are on a hunger strike. In their press release, they reported already being in poor health and underfed due to staff neglect, and are demanding due process, bond reform, improved conditions, adequate medical and mental health care, decent food, accountability for deaths at the facility and the right to organize and communicate.

At least four people - Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Gabriel Garcia-Aviles, Alberto Gutierrez Reyes and Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano - have died while being held at this GEO Group-run detention camp in San Bernadino County, California since September, with multiple accusations of staff denying folks necessary medical care. Detainees have reported physical and sexual abuse, said they’ve been refused a change of clothes, underwear or towels, and advocates have reported inadequate access to clean food and water and other unsafe and unsanitary conditions. It’s been the subject of multiple federal investigations and civil rights lawsuits, and the California Attorney General’s office has found staffing has failed to keep up with the growing number of detainees.

Families of migrants held at Adelanto and advocates are holding a virtual press conference tomorrow, May 20th, at 10AM ET/7AM PT. We’re being asked to help get more coverage of this hunger strike and detainees’ demand for the center to be shut down. Let’s do our part! We can reach out to local outlets to urge them to cover this protest, such as:

·       Los Angeles Times here or at tips@latimes.com

·       CalMatters at 916-502-9986 or tips@calmatters.org

·       KCAL (CBS affiliate) here, at kcalkcbsdesk@cbs.com or at 818-221-2222

·       KNBC (NBC affiliate) here

·       KMEX (Univision affiliate) here

·       KABC (ABC affiliate) here or at 877-777-6397

·       KVEA (local Telemundo affiliate) here

L.A. TACO - May 18, 2026. If you’d like to donate to VCDefensa: vcdefensa.org/donate

Here’s the video on:

* L.A. TACO’s website (article + video): Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin in California ICE Detention Centers as Conditions Worsen - May 18, 2026 (L.A. TACO website)

* YouTube: Daily Memo: Hunger Strikes Begin in California ICE Detention Centers as Conditions Worsen - L.A. TACO - May 18, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description:

Today is Monday, May 18th, Day 347, and these are your updates on the ICE siege, which, yes, is still ongoing.

Less than a week after ICE raided the homes of people associated with VCDefensa, the community watch group that’s been legally observing and warning their communities of ICE’s presence in the 805 area s, ICE is now heavily targeting those areas, beginning with Oxnard, and taking people from their vehicles.

The attack on VCDefensa comes days after the White House published Trump’s “Counterterrorism Strategy,” in which he includes “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists” as a threat to the U.S.

Trump declares that Americans who oppose his fascist administration will face a very fascist response, writing, “We Will Find You, and We Will Kill You.”

To do that, Trump is using Palantir’s advanced AI surveillance firm to gather data on all Americans, including the IRS, Health and Human Services, DHS, and other agencies, to centralize, compile, and create a mass database that can easily track people in the U.S., including its citizens.

They're being held at ICE’s Dilley Family Detention Center in Texas. GoFundMe (donations are currently paused, as of May 10): gofundme.com/f/alamo-heights-bring-our-wrongfully-detained-neighbors-home

Here are two petitions:

* DHS and CoreCivic: change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children

* US House and Senate: actionnetwork.org/letters/mom-say-shut-down-dilley-close-the-camps-and-bring-our-kids-home

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Video is from May 6, 2026 - Jacob Soboroff on MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.

Here’s the clip on Rep. Joaquin Castro’s YouTube channel: #shutdowndilley #freeourchildren - MS NOW clip shared by Rep. Joaquin Castro (YouTube)

Here’s the full 4-minute segment on:

* MS NOW’s website: Detained family, taken from school bus stop, exposes the harsh reality of Trump’s immigration policy - Jacob Soboroff - May 6, 2026 (MS NOW website)

* YouTube: Detained family, taken from school bus stop, exposes the harsh reality of Trump's immigration policy - Jacob Soboroff on MS NOW - May 6, 2026 (YouTube)

Here’s another r/EyesOnIce post with another clip from this same MS NOW segment: The Family came to the US, applied for asylum, got work permits, and had valid legal status. And still, they were detained.

And here are the latest r/EyesOnIce posts with: Jacob Soboroff ~:~ Joaquin Castro ~:~ Detention ~:~ Dilley ~:~ Stephen Miller

Our resistance to Trump’s thugs needs to be present and visible at his detention camps. On MONDAY at 8:00PM ET, the Workers Circle is holding a movement call on one tactic for doing so: freedom vigils. They’ve been leading them for more than 40 weeks at “Alligator Alcatraz,” and they’ve played a key role in helping keep the public eye on those being held there. We’ll hear from organizers on best practices and lessons they’ve learned running these vigils across the country and get plugged in with support for setting up our own. 🕯️ We can sign up to join the call here. 🕯️

Repost @nytimes "Get him, he's Mexican." That's what Javier Ramirez heard before being pinned to the ground and detained for five days - despite being a U.S. citizen. New body camera footage from Nashville reveals a disturbing pattern of ICE and state troopers using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers. While the Supreme Court has banned race-conscious admissions in colleges, it has effectively given a rubber stamp to racial profiling on our streets, argues the New York Times editorial board. This double standard has millions of Americans living in fear.