The "Blue Butterfly" at Dilley: What's Real, What Isn't, and Why It Matters The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is not a place most people think about until something goes wrong. And lately, something has, though the full picture is considerably messier than social media wants it to be. Dilley is an ICE family detention facility. It has held mothers, their children, and more recently single adult women. The facility is operated by a private contractor,

The footage is unremarkable at first glance. A father and son moving through an airport terminal. A small boy spreading his blanket across the floor, then wandering over to press his face against the window. Standard airport tedium, except that five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrián Conejo Arias, were not heading to a family vacation. They were heading to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, flanked by three escorts whose official capaci