5-year-old Liam Ramos back home in Minneapolis after judge orders his release

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy detained in Minneapolis and sent to a detention center near San Antonio was released Saturday along with his father, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. The father and son are now back home in the Twin Cities, tweeted Castro, a San Antonio Democrat

What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center

Nearly 100 demonstrators caravanned to the site southwest of San Antonio to call for the release of all children being held at immigration detention facilities. The post What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center appeared first on San Antonio Current.

San Antonio’s long-running La Focaccia Italian Grill has closed

The casual Italian eatery had been a Southtown staple for 30 years. The post San Antonio’s long-running La Focaccia Italian Grill has closed appeared first on San Antonio Current.

Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE’s Dilley family detention facility

After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee. Lee, who went viral last week for capturing the moment a protest broke out