Calls to shut down Texas ICE facility for children grow amid measles outbreak

Protesters gather outside the detention facility where Liam Ramos and his father are being detained in Dilley, Texas, on 28 January. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

At least two cases of measles have been confirmed at a major immigration detention center for children and their parents in Texas as cases of the dangerous virus in South Carolina, Arizona, Utah and other US states continue growing and alarming experts.

In January alone, the US saw 25% of the total confirmed in all of last year, and the outbreak shows no sign of slowing as federal officials stay silent on vaccination.