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Earlier this year, a 16-year-old student at a Los Angeles high school was looking forward to starting his junior year, where he planned to try out for the school\u2019s varsity tennis team. His parents were both college psychology professors.<\/p>\n

But in April, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested the family, who immigrated from Iran more than a decade ago, after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told immigration officers to revoke their permanent legal status. ICE separated the family, sending them to two different Texas detention centers.<\/p>\n

For the past 123 days, the teen and his mother have lived in an immigrant detention facility in Dilley, where he and other detainees share their rooms with swarms of cockroaches, spiders and mosquitoes, he wrote in a sworn affidavit. Meanwhile, his father is at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been put through hell for the past four months, and our physical and mental health have deteriorated in ways that might not be reversible for years,\u201d Maryam Tahmasebi, his mother, wrote in The Nation on Tuesday. \u201cWe are only allowed to speak with my husband for 10 minutes every two weeks, under supervision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teen is one of at least 60 children who the Trump administration has held in the Dilley detention center for 100 days or more \u2014 far exceeding the 20-day limit for detaining immigrant children \u2014 according to a Texas Tribune <\/em>analysis of federal government data.<\/p>\n

On average, children in the Dilley detention center spend 25 days there \u2014 but in a six-month period ending in December, that average peaked at 47 days, according to the Tribune<\/em>\u2019s analysis.<\/p>\n

The teen, who is only identified by his initials \u2014 S.M.H. \u2014 in court documents, said in a sworn declaration that being arrested and detained was \u201cterrifying\u201d and he has lost 10 pounds since his arrest.<\/p>\n

His four months of detention is illegal, the family\u2019s lawyers argued in court documents, because it\u2019s six times more than the limit set by a federal court in what\u2019s known as the Flores settlement, a legal agreement from a 1985 class-action lawsuit accusing the federal government of mistreating children in immigration detention.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee in California, who oversees the Flores settlement, said in a court hearing in June she plans to appoint a monitor to force the Trump administration to comply with the agreement. The case is currently before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n

In President Trump\u2019s first term, his administration attempted to end the Flores settlement. Now the administration is trying again to end the agreement, arguing in court that it\u2019s \u201coutdated\u201d and \u201cjudicial micromanagement\u201d of its immigration policy.<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Tribune<\/em>, the Department of Homeland Security called the settlement \u201ca tool of the left that is antithetical to the law and wastes valuable U.S. taxpayer funded resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE also said in a July court filing that Dilley\u2019s average length of stay was ballooning because of a small number of detainees who are being held longer after being declared national security risks, among other reasons.<\/p>\n

In the first year after the March 2025 reopening of the Dilley facility, the country\u2019s only detention center for families, the Trump administration held around 3,000 children for deportation there \u2014 more than half of them for more than 20 days.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration had ended the practice of detaining families and closed the Dilley facility before the Trump administration reopened it last year as part of its mass deportation efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe facility is in perpetual violation of the law,\u201d said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio. Castro, who has made seven oversight visits to the Dilley detention center, has demanded that the Trump administration shut down the facility.<\/p>\n

Immigrant children\u2019s rights lawyers have renewed their legal fight against the federal government, claiming the conditions at Dilley and prolonged confinement is evidence the Trump administration is violating the Flores settlement. As part of the ongoing legal dispute, lawyers have collected testimony from families, including children, who describe rotting food, non-potable water and lack of medical attention.<\/p>\n

The teenager\u2019s father, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, entered the U.S. on a student visa in 2014. His wife and S.M.H. then 5, followed a year later. Hashemi found a job teaching psychology at The Chicago School, while Tahmasebi teaches psychology and statistics at Los Angeles Pierce College, a community college in the San Fernando Valley. In 2016, the family received their green cards.<\/p>\n

S.M.H. described himself as \u201can average American kid\u201d in his court affidavit. Outside of school, he read Japanese comic books and played video games.<\/p>\n

But to the Trump administration, the teenager and his parents\u2019 presence in the country is a foreign policy risk. Their arrests came just over a month after the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran.<\/p>\n

Rubio wrote an April memo to immigration officials that he believed the family\u2019s green cards should be revoked. Rubio cited a little used immigration law that allows the secretary of state to seek the deportation of specific people for foreign policy reasons.<\/p>\n

Their presence in the U.S., Rubio wrote, could have \u201cserious adverse foreign policy consequences\u201d and \u201cundermines U.S. foreign policy interests.\u201d The reason, he wrote, is because 47 years ago, S.M.H\u2019s then-19-year-old grandmother, Masoumeh Ebtekar, served as a spokesperson for a university student group that held 52 American citizens hostage for 444 days inside the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is shameful that Secretary Rubio takes the position that children should be held accountable for the acts of their parents and grandparents,\u201d said Curtis Morrison, a lawyer in the family\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n

In her article, Tahmasebi wrote that she, her husband and son have never been accused of a crime while living in the U.S. \u201cNot even a traffic ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have struggled to understand how this can happen to people who have never broken the law, in a system I believed to be based on the rule of law,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The family\u2019s lawyer has filed a petition for their release, arguing that for S.M.H., California \u201cis the only home he has known, and he is closely bound to his family, friends, school, and community there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment. But after the family\u2019s arrest in April, it released a statement saying the administration \u201cwill never allow America to become a home for foreign nationals tied to anti-American terrorist regimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

A DHS spokesperson said the family \u201cposed a clear threat\u201d to the country\u2019s foreign policy and national security. The department also pushed back against detained children\u2019s complaints about conditions at Dilley.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Ryan Gustin, a spokesperson for CoreCivic, which operates the detention center, defended the company\u2019s practices and said it has no control over how long children are detained.<\/p>\n

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He said staff regularly clean the facility and drink the same water that detainees do \u2014 he added that the water quality is tested regularly. He also pointed to a recent ICE report that said Dilley \u201chas maintained core Flores-related services\u201d such as medical and mental health care, sanitation and food service. The report cited education as an area that needs improvement; Gustin said the company has been working to address that.<\/p>\n

Attorneys in contact with detained children have called this report \u201ca fiction of compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teen calls Dilley experience \u201ca nightmare\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the teen from California, O.S. was also arrested and held for months at Dilley when he was 16.<\/p>\n

In June 2025, immigration officers arrested the teenager, his mother, Hayam El Gamal, and four siblings when his father, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, according to prosecutors, threw Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel demonstration in Colorado. A state judge sentenced Soliman to life in prison earlier this year after he pleaded guilty to 101 charges including murder.<\/p>\n

The rest of the Egyptian family, however, was never charged with any crimes. They also said they were estranged from Soliman and did not know about his plan to attack the event. Still, they were detained for 323 days at Dilley before their release in April.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the El Gamal family, the Trump administration began to set a precedent whereby innocent people could be punished for the actions of others,\u201d said Eric Lee, an attorney for the family. \u201cAnd that has no place whatsoever in a democratic society.\u201d<\/p>\n

O.S. called the experience \u201ca nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis prolonged detention has and continues to destroy our lives,\u201d the boy wrote in a letter in March. \u201cIt is slowly killing us on the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

His family also raised concerns about moldy food and lack of adequate medical care. O.S. wrote that a dentist in the facility found that his 5-year-old sister had 13 cavities but didn\u2019t properly treat them. The girl\u2019s pain became so unbearable that she would cry for hours, and staff treated her with painkillers for two months before their release, he added.<\/p>\n

Their deteriorating mental health and complaints about the facility\u2019s conditions are similar to what many detained families have said after being held in Dilley.<\/p>\n

A 13-year-old girl who grew up in Miami before she and her mother were arrested by immigration officers during a periodic check-in had spent 90 days in the detention center when she wrote in her court declaration that if she had to \u201cdescribe Dilley with one word, it would be \u2018horrible.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is awful to be inside here all the time and feel like you\u2019re locked up,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

These experiences can also stay with the children long after they leave the facility. O.S., for instance, said it had been difficult to return to normal life after his family\u2019s release in April.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing at Dilley distances kids from the real world and takes away all the normalcy from everything,\u201d he wrote in a court declaration weeks later. \u201cAfter you get released, the effects are still there. Nothing is normal anymore because you live in fear of going back to that place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no humane way to detain a child\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic lawmakers and immigrant rights advocates\u2019 have called for Dilley to be shut down, saying holding children in such conditions is causing harm to innocent families.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Castro, the San Antonio congressman, has visited detention centers in Texas, including Dilley, to document the conditions immigrants are living in. The vast majority of people detained in Dilley do not have a criminal record so it doesn\u2019t make sense to treat them like criminals, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were very desperate and traumatized, and you can see it in their faces,\u201d Castro said in an interview. \u201cThe kids are usually either shellshocked and just quiet and detached, or they\u2019re very overcome by emotion sometimes. But most of all, they don\u2019t understand why they\u2019re there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leecia Welch, a lawyer with Children\u2019s Rights who has visited Dilley a dozen times and interviewed children held there, said in a court filing that some would also cry all night, isolate themselves or have panic attacks.<\/p>\n

Welch told the Tribune<\/em> that the concerns for children become more extreme the longer they stay in custody: \u201cA hundred days for any of us feels like a long time, but 100 days is an eternity in the life of a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sural Shah, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health, said children should not be in a detention center and is concerned the federal government wants to get rid of the Flores settlement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no humane way to detain a child,\u201d Shah said.<\/p>\n

Complaints about food, education<\/p>\n

Tahmasebi, S.M.H.\u2019s mother, said that her son, who only speaks English and has only had schooling in California, is \u201cstruggling to understand why the only country he considers home is treating him this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time S.M.H. wrote his affidavit, he and his mother had been in the Dilley facility for 100 days.<\/p>\n

He said staff routinely yell at children and deny anything they ask for \u2014 such as the pizza and cupcakes the staff brings from outside for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for them to see it and have that food be just another thing they are denied here,\u201d S.M.H. wrote.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThey don\u2019t seem to really know how to actually deal with and work with children,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThey all trash talk and gossip about residents everywhere. It\u2019s like watching Mean Girls but irl,\u201d he added, referencing the teen comedy movie and using the textism for \u201cin real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The food they\u2019re served, he wrote, is \u201cterrible and unhealthy.\u201d And the food detainees can buy at the commissary is mostly junk food.<\/p>\n

Gustin, the CoreCivic spokesperson, said detainees receive \u201cthree nutritious meals a day, plus snacks\u201d from a dietician-approved menu.<\/p>\n

S.M.H. wrote that he missed his friends, and school.<\/p>\n

At the Dilley facility, the education is \u201cnon-existent\u201d compared to what he was getting in California, S.M.H. wrote. He added that classes are more geared toward younger kids, with \u201cnothing for teenagers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back home, he was arrested just before his class was scheduled to do a pig dissection in his biology class.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe I will get to do some of the biology things I missed when I go to college,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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