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Immigration attorney Eric Lee said he was at the Dilley facility for a confidential visit with clients — an immigrant family of six, including five children — when guards began shouting for everyone in the waiting area to leave, citing what they described as “an incident.”

As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like “hundreds of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent." He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."

Lee said clients he later spoke with told him the protest was triggered by concerns over the treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, a five-year-old who was taken into custody with his father in Minnesota earlier this week and transferred to the Dilley facility.

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Lee described Saturday’s action inside the facility as a peaceful demonstration, not a riot, and said the show of solidarity carried risk for detained families.

Lee said the protest unfolded against what he described as harsh day-to-day conditions inside the Dilley detention center. He characterized the facility as “a horrible, horrible place,” alleging that drinking water is “putrid” and often undrinkable, and that meals have contained “bugs,” dirt, and debris.

“The guards are just as tough as the guards at the adult facilities. This is not a place that you would want to have your child be for even 15 minutes,” Lee said.

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Texas Public Radio reached out to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment on the disturbance and on Lee’s allegations regarding Liam Ramos’ treatment but had not received a response by Saturday evening.

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Update of an old Irish protest tune Come Out Ye Black and Tans, originally written and performed by Carsie Blanton

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e; updated headline, original was "Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say".

A man was shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.

Video shows several agents wrestling the man to the ground and shooting him multiple times. The Department of Homeland Security said the man was armed with a gun.

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“We inherited a budget that mismanaged finances at every turn,” Mayor Mamdani told reporters at a press conference in Albany following the governor’s State of the State address.

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On April 7, 2018, Everett Palmer, Jr. was picked up on an old DUI charge and booked into Pennsylvania’s York County Prison (YCP).

Over the next two days, Palmer’s mental health deteriorated, much of which was captured on surveillance video, according to a report by the York County Investigating Grand Jury. He was hallucinating and screaming. He repeatedly put his blanket in the toilet and wrapped himself in it.

In the early morning hours of April 9, Palmer began to slam his head and fists into the cell door, according to the Grand Jury’s report. A unit supervisor tased him twice and correctional officers stormed his cell. They tackled him and placed a spit hood over his head.

Five officers carried him out of the cell and strapped him into a restraint chair. He was breathing heavily and appeared to be gasping for breath, according to the report. While he was still in the restraint chair, the guards took him to the medical unit. An ambulance was called and he was declared dead at the hospital. Palmer, an Army veteran, was 41-years-old.

In the wake of his death, local and national reporters wrote about the harrowing last days of Palmer’s life. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania opened an investigation into his case, but no charges were filed by local or federal prosecutors.

In the years since his death, York County has ramped up its use of restraint chairs. In 2018, the restraint chair was used a total of 148 times. Six years later, in 2024, the restraint chair was used 191 times—an increase of almost 30 percent—even though the population of the jail was about half of what it had been in 2018, according to The Appeal’s analysis of county data from 2018 to 2024. (The data for 2025 has not yet been published.)

As required by state law, counties report data on use-of-force incidents, including use of restraints, each month to the state Department of Corrections, but the data is not validated by outside sources.

According to The Appeal’s analysis, from 2018 through 2024, York County used restraint chairs a total of 1,295 times—more than any other county in the state.

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