[Opinion. If you can defend, or even accept, this kind of treatment to human beings, it’s you who belongs in a cage. Compiled report.]

Two-month-old Juan Nicolás has spent half his life inside America’s largest family detention center. When he got sick, the doctor was gone.

Pablo Manríquez

Migrant Insider: 17 February 2026

The doctor wasn’t there.

It was approaching midnight on Monday in Dilley, Texas, and a two-month-old boy named Juan Nicolás required immediate medical attention because he couldn’t breathe, and the doctor wasn’t there.

His mother — a woman who had crossed whatever desert and river and checkpoint stood between her child and a life — screamed for help the way only a mother can scream. And what came back was a shrug dressed in official language. No physician on site at this hour. Nothing to be done.

This is the United States of America in 2026.

Juan Nicolás turned two months old inside an ICE private prison. Do the math on that. He has been alive for roughly sixty days. For more than three weeks of those sixty days — half his time on this earth — he has been the property of CoreCivic, a brutal private prison company that bills the federal government for the privilege of jailing infants, and which will tell you with a straight corporate face that emergency care is available around the clock.

Congressman Joaquin Castro walked into the Dilley medical wing on January 28th. He looked around. There was nobody there. Not a nurse. Not an aide. Not a clipboard with a pulse reading. The clinic that CoreCivic advertises as evidence of its humane care sat empty in the middle of the afternoon like a diner that stopped serving food but kept the sign lit.

This is what it has come to in America — a United States congressman has to push hard to get a two-month-old out of a cage. He has to go on Instagram Live. He has to call local television. He has to treat the release of an infant as a legislative priority.

The baby’s mother is with him at the hospital, where he is under 24-hour supervision by medical staff and federal agents with guns.

As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

4 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

I'm more ashamed of losing track of hundreds of thousands of kids during the Autopen administration. We don't know where they are, whether they're like the ones found in N. California working on weed farms, whether they're sex toys, or even organ sources. Hundreds of thousands.

Turn out those cages that Obama built were pretty good at keeping kids out of the clutches of pedos and organ traffickers...

BTW, do you really think a 2 month old kid knows he's being "supervised"?

33 minutes ago, impulse said:

I'm more ashamed of losing track of hundreds of thousands of kids during the Autopen administration. We don't know where they are, whether they're like the ones found in N. California working on weed farms, whether they're sex toys, or even organ sources. Hundreds of thousands.

Turn out those cages that Obama built were pretty good at keeping kids out of the clutches of pedos and organ traffickers...

BTW, do you really think a 2 month old kid knows he's being "supervised"?

No more than he knows that he's being deprived of decent medical care.

1 hour ago, Alan Zweibel said:

No more than he knows that he's being deprived of decent medical care.

What kind of care do you figure the 300,000 missing immigrant kids from the Autopen administration are getting?

The ones that haven't been harvested for organs, I mean.

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My heart breaks. Should have though of that before you illegally entered my country.

An update. Juan Nicolas has now been deported back to Mexico with his mother.

'Choking' infant Juan Nicolás at ICE's family detention center near San Antonio 'rushed' to hospital

Two-month-old Juan Nicolás was "rushed" to the hospital Monday evening, reportedly falling ill after spending nearly a month detained at the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, ... .

https://www.expressnews.com/news/texas/article/sick-infant-hospitalized-dilley-detention-center-21358371.php

16 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Opinion. If you can defend, or even accept, this kind of treatment to human beings, it’s you who belongs in a cage. Compiled report.]

The victim card is always played by the left. I guess the child smugglers, child rapists and child abusers that have been rounded up be ICE are also victims where the children that were smuggled across Biden's wide open southern border are the real victims. As for the article itself what do you think should happen when a mother is in the country illegally and faces deportation? "Oh. You have a baby. Never mind then you're free to go."

13 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

The victim card is always played by the left.

I worked abroad for many years.

I had to get a work permit renewal every year.

I was always under constant threat of having my work permit revoked and getting kicked out of the country.

If you look at your employer or the immigration guy the wrong way, bye bye.

How are these people even getting in?

Screw them.

I hope every single last one of them without valid papers gets their butt booted out.

And can stories about harsh conditions in detention centers actually be trusted? Or is it more propaganda from the left?

10 hours ago, impulse said:

What kind of care do you figure the 300,000 missing immigrant kids from the Autopen administration are getting?

The ones that haven't been harvested for organs, I mean.

Are you seriously suggesting that President Biden's administration operated a programme of harvesting organs from detained immigrant children, a death toll running into hundreds of thousands?

You are so far off the scale of "Internet rumour fed political weirdness" as to be utterly bonkers!

2 hours ago, JAG said:

Are you seriously suggesting that President Biden's administration operated a programme of harvesting organs from detained immigrant children, a death toll running into hundreds of thousands?

You are so far off the scale of "Internet rumour fed political weirdness" as to be utterly bonkers!

Gangs not the government. Amazing. As for a death toll surely you must know that most organ harvesting doesn't result in death. China would be an outlier here where if a heart is ordered and paid for it will be taken from the unfortunate prisoner that had a match.

7 hours ago, save the frogs said:

I worked abroad for many years.

I had to get a work permit renewal every year.

I was always under constant threat of having my work permit revoked and getting kicked out of the country.

If you look at your employer or the immigration guy the wrong way, bye bye.

How are these people even getting in?

Screw them.

I hope every single last one of them without valid papers gets their butt booted out.

And can stories about harsh conditions in detention centers actually be trusted? Or is it more propaganda from the left?

I’ve worked most of my life working overseas, like you always with the correct permits and visas, I never felt under threat of deportation.

Unlike you, I recognize I have something in common with ‘illegal migrants’, they like me want the opportunity to work for a better life for themselves and their families.

The only difference is the paperwork.

42 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’ve worked most of my life working overseas, like you always with the correct permits and visas, I never felt under threat of deportation.

Unlike you, I recognize I have something in common with ‘illegal migrants’, they like me want the opportunity to work for a better life for themselves and their families.

The only difference is the paperwork.

Umm? Yes. This is the whole point isn't it. Being in a country legally with the required paperwork and being in a country illegally without the required paperwork. Obviously being in a country without the required paperwork comes with consequences amongst which is arrest and deportation.

On 2/21/2026 at 3:30 PM, unblocktheplanet said:

[Opinion. If you can defend, or even accept, this kind of treatment to human beings, it’s you who belongs in a cage. Compiled report.]

Two-month-old Juan Nicolás has spent half his life inside America’s largest family detention center. When he got sick, the doctor was gone.

Pablo Manríquez

Migrant Insider: 17 February 2026

The doctor wasn’t there.

It was approaching midnight on Monday in Dilley, Texas, and a two-month-old boy named Juan Nicolás required immediate medical attention because he couldn’t breathe, and the doctor wasn’t there.

His mother — a woman who had crossed whatever desert and river and checkpoint stood between her child and a life — screamed for help the way only a mother can scream. And what came back was a shrug dressed in official language. No physician on site at this hour. Nothing to be done.

This is the United States of America in 2026.

Juan Nicolás turned two months old inside an ICE private prison. Do the math on that. He has been alive for roughly sixty days. For more than three weeks of those sixty days — half his time on this earth — he has been the property of CoreCivic, a brutal private prison company that bills the federal government for the privilege of jailing infants, and which will tell you with a straight corporate face that emergency care is available around the clock.

Congressman Joaquin Castro walked into the Dilley medical wing on January 28th. He looked around. There was nobody there. Not a nurse. Not an aide. Not a clipboard with a pulse reading. The clinic that CoreCivic advertises as evidence of its humane care sat empty in the middle of the afternoon like a diner that stopped serving food but kept the sign lit.

This is what it has come to in America — a United States congressman has to push hard to get a two-month-old out of a cage. He has to go on Instagram Live. He has to call local television. He has to treat the release of an infant as a legislative priority.

The baby’s mother is with him at the hospital, where he is under 24-hour supervision by medical staff and federal agents with guns.

As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Great story bro

On 2/21/2026 at 3:30 PM, unblocktheplanet said:

[Opinion. If you can defend, or even accept, this kind of treatment to human beings, it’s you who belongs in a cage. Compiled report.]

Two-month-old Juan Nicolás has spent half his life inside America’s largest family detention center. When he got sick, the doctor was gone.

Pablo Manríquez

Migrant Insider: 17 February 2026

The doctor wasn’t there.

It was approaching midnight on Monday in Dilley, Texas, and a two-month-old boy named Juan Nicolás required immediate medical attention because he couldn’t breathe, and the doctor wasn’t there.

His mother — a woman who had crossed whatever desert and river and checkpoint stood between her child and a life — screamed for help the way only a mother can scream. And what came back was a shrug dressed in official language. No physician on site at this hour. Nothing to be done.

This is the United States of America in 2026.

Juan Nicolás turned two months old inside an ICE private prison. Do the math on that. He has been alive for roughly sixty days. For more than three weeks of those sixty days — half his time on this earth — he has been the property of CoreCivic, a brutal private prison company that bills the federal government for the privilege of jailing infants, and which will tell you with a straight corporate face that emergency care is available around the clock.

Congressman Joaquin Castro walked into the Dilley medical wing on January 28th. He looked around. There was nobody there. Not a nurse. Not an aide. Not a clipboard with a pulse reading. The clinic that CoreCivic advertises as evidence of its humane care sat empty in the middle of the afternoon like a diner that stopped serving food but kept the sign lit.

This is what it has come to in America — a United States congressman has to push hard to get a two-month-old out of a cage. He has to go on Instagram Live. He has to call local television. He has to treat the release of an infant as a legislative priority.

The baby’s mother is with him at the hospital, where he is under 24-hour supervision by medical staff and federal agents with guns.

As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Obviously, the little boy's mother did not care about the life of her child "crossed whatever desert and river and checkpoint." Both could have died with this crossing so who is to blame, the mother not the U.S. immigration service.

36 minutes ago, Screaming said:

Obviously, the little boy's mother did not care about the life of her child "crossed whatever desert and river and checkpoint." Both could have died with this crossing so who is to blame, the mother not the U.S. immigration service.

Actually Biden and the gangs south of the border is where the finger should point.

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On 2/22/2026 at 8:31 AM, JAG said:

Are you seriously suggesting that President Biden's administration operated a programme of harvesting organs from detained immigrant children, a death toll running into hundreds of thousands?

You are so far off the scale of "Internet rumour fed political weirdness" as to be utterly bonkers!

Where did I say that?

I do claim that the Autopen administration lost track of about 300,000 minors who crossed the border, were recorded, then turned over to poorly or non-vetted "sponsors". And now we can't find them.

Here's a thought... Argue with me about what I said. Not what you wish I said.

17 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I’ve worked most of my life working overseas, like you always with the correct permits and visas, I never felt under threat of deportation.

Unlike you, I recognize I have something in common with ‘illegal migrants’, they like me want the opportunity to work for a better life for themselves and their families.

The only difference is the paperwork.

Funny thing about paperwork. I'm not allowed to get on a plane without it. Nor can I work (or even stay) in Thailand without it. I can't even perform surgery without it.

The world isn't fair.

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1 hour ago, impulse said:

Where did I say that?

I do claim that the Autopen administration lost track of about 300,000 minors who crossed the border, were recorded, then turned over to poorly or non-vetted "sponsors". And now we can't find them.

Here's a thought... Argue with me about what I said. Not what you wish I said.

Do you understand that the government report on which this is based covers the fiscal years 2019 to 2023? So, it certainly is legitimate to blame the Biden Administration for not rectifying the situation it inherited. But how does that leave the Trump administration off the hook? Double standards much?

On 2/21/2026 at 8:25 PM, impulse said:

I'm more ashamed of losing track of hundreds of thousands of kids during the Autopen administration. We don't know where they are, whether they're like the ones found in N. California working on weed farms, whether they're sex toys, or even organ sources. Hundreds of thousands.

Turn out those cages that Obama built were pretty good at keeping kids out of the clutches of pedos and organ traffickers...

BTW, do you really think a 2 month old kid knows he's being "supervised"?

In March 2025, Trump acknowledged using an autopen. In late 2025, it was reported that some pardons signed by Trump were identical, suggesting they were produced by an autopen, which his administration later claimed was due to a technical error where a hand-signed document was "mistakenly uploaded multiple times".

2 hours ago, impulse said:

I do claim that the Autopen administration lost track of about 300,000 minors who crossed the border, were recorded, then turned over to poorly or non-vetted "sponsors". And now we can't find them.

And, so what? If nothing else, 300k in a nation of 350M don't really matter, do they.

1 minute ago, unblocktheplanet said:

And, so what? If nothing else, 300k in a nation of 350M don't really matter, do they.

If those 300K children are being trafficked for sex it doesn't matter?

17 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

If those 300K children are being trafficked for sex it doesn't matter?

And if they're all being bled to death to provide adrenochrome to members of the Deep State that would be even worse.