Daughter Says Cuban Mother Has Spent Eight Months in ICE Detention Despite Dismissed Removal Proceedings Xiomara Companioni González walked into what her family says was a routine immigration check-in on Nov. 13, 2025. According to her daughter, Yaimi Yanet, she never walked back out. ICE detained the 63-year-old Cuban national, and she has remained in federal custody while her immigration case continues through the legal system. Court records confirm she has remained detaine

A post on Threads has gone viral: immigration is paperwork law, and nobody should die over paperwork. No caveats can soften that sentence, and none are needed. It sets a moral floor that predates any statute. The floor has needed restating all year, in different states, under different agencies. An ICE officer fatally shot a man on Canal Street in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of Houston in July, prompting LULAC to demand release of all body cam, dash cam, and bystander

Somebody's mother taught her children to keep their hands where officers could see them, to speak slowly, to do exactly what the badge said and nothing more. That lesson used to buy safety. Renee Good followed it. Alex Pretti followed it. Ruben Ray Martinez followed it, brake lights lit, car barely moving, hands where anyone could see them. All three ended up dead anyway, and the country owes their families more than a press release calling it self-defense. "Comply or die" is

For more than a decade, immigration agents largely avoided entering places of worship to make arrests, under a "sensitive locations" policy formalized by ICE Director John Morton in October 2011. The Department of Homeland Security rescinded that policy on January 21, 2025, removing the restriction entirely. Sister Letty Ugboaja's detention this past Sunday, while walking to morning Mass in McAllen, shows what enforcement looks like without it. Sister Letty Ugboaja returned h

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