The disturbing footage is difficult to watch. Women in colour-coded jackets standing in orderly rows behind razor wire. Children are clapping in unison. Voices rising together in a single desperate chorus: 'Let us go. Libertad. Liberty for the kids.'
The videos, filmed on 24 January 2026 at the South Texas Family Residential Centre in Dilley, Texas, spread rapidly after an immigration attorney posted them online. They show what appears to be a coordinated protest inside the largest family detention facility in the United States, where approximately 1,200 people, roughly a third of them children, are currently being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
