Children zip-tied at San Antonio immigration court in new crackdow

[douglas9]

At least three migrant children were taken into custody and restrained with zip ties at the San Antonio Immigration Court, located at 800 Dolorosa Street, on Thursday, May 29, according to multiple sources.

The incident was captured on video by an immigration attorney, who then shared the footage with attendees of an immigration law conference being held this week at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio Riverwalk Hotel by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., or CLINIC.

CLINIC is an immigration law advocacy group that “provides training and support” to more than 400 Catholic and community-based immigration legal aid organizations, according to their website.

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It’s unclear if those agents, or the ones who took the children into custody on Thursday, work for ICE. Rivera said when CLINIC-affiliated officials asked the agents to identify themselves, they replied that “they were FBI.”




https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/migrant-kids-zip-tied-20351707.php

[Irish_Dem]

1. For the love of God, zip ties for young children?

GD jackboot nazi gestapo.

If I was present when this happened I would speak my piece at the coward US officials.
They cannot manage to control small children, they must zip tie them?

Total jackwads.

[Doodley]

2. Who out there actually believes Trump was sent by God?

[k_buddy762]

4. Maybe as a punishment!

[riversedge]

3. The children were between the ages of 9 and 12.

Children zip-tied at San Antonio immigration court in new crackdown
The children were between the ages of 9 and 12.
By Dina Arévalo, South Texas Reporter May 29, 2025



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Children were detained using zip-ties at an immigration court in San Antonio on Thursday, May 29.
Courtesy of Priscilla Olivarez, Immigrant Legal Resource Center


https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/migrant-kids-zip-tied-20351707.php

................Guillermo Hernandez III, a San Antonio-based immigration attorney, also confirmed to MySA that the children were arrested and placed in zip ties Thursday morning.

Like Rivera, Hernandez said this sort of treatment of children is something new.

"We’ve never seen them detain family units, children, like this. And I think it’s part of this administration to round up as many immigrants as possible," Hernandez said. "We have not seen this before, and I think the point is to instill fear and kind of be cruel about this process."

But it’s unclear why the children were zip-tied during their detention or why they were detained at all. An email sent to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the federal agency tasked with enforcing immigration law, did not yield an immediate response.