Tiniest ICE Victims’ Heartbreaking Pleas for Freedom Exposed

Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Gerson López Garcia Heartbreaking drawings by children held inside a notorious immigrant detention facility lay bare the misery behind its walls—as guards stand accused of seizing their artwork to silence them. The sketches, obtained by ProPublica after they were smuggled out of the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, include a pencil drawing of a wobbly bus carrying stick figures, below which a child has written in Spanish: “Me quiero ir”—“I want to leave.” Nine-year-old Valentina drew her family as three frowning stick figures trapped behind a wire fence, alongside a plea to God to help them escape “this nightmare.” Read more at The Daily Beast.