"Guri said he worried he was going to go 'crazy' inside Dilley.
He feels sad, he said, but also bored. 'We sometimes entertain ourselves,' Guri said. They collect empty plastic water bottles, and take turns hitting them on each others’ heads: 'Like, I hit it on her head, she hits it on me.'
On Manpreet’s birthday – which came about one month into the family’s detention – her parents assembled a sort of 'cake' made with snacks they bought from the center’s commissary, and everyone in the cafeteria sang Happy Birthday to her. But there were no candles. If there were, she said, she would have blown them out and wished that she and her family could get out of Dilley.'
~ Maanvi Singh
"She celebrated her 11th birthday in ICE detention."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/texas-ice-family-detention
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