A sick two-month-old baby who became unconscious is deported to Mexico

A baby of just two months, with respiratory problems and who has remained serious during his stay in a detention center in Texaswas deported this Tuesday with his family to Mexico.

He was the Democratic congressman Joaquin Castro who reported on social networks that the little boy was transported to the border with Mexico along with his parents and his 16-year-old sister. “Unnecessarily deporting a sick baby and his family is appalling. My office and I are focused on finding them and holding ICE responsible for this monstrous action,” he denounced in X.

The little boy had been “constantly ill” during his passing through the detention center in Dilley (Texas) “vomiting and having breathing problems.”

For this reason, he was transferred on Monday for a few hours to a local hospital, where He was diagnosed with bronchitis and was treated.according to his mother, who accompanied her son to Castro.

Both returned to the detention center, although the baby’s health continued to deteriorate, becoming even “in the last unconscious hours” before his deportation.

Despite this, the little boy and his family were deported and “abandoned on the border with Mexico”, carrying only the 190 dollars they had on them at the time of their arrest.

A controversial detention center

The Dilley Detention Center, officially called South Texas Family Residential Centeris the largest facility for immigrant detainees in the United States and is located in Dilley, a small town south of San Antonio, Texas.

More than 1,400 people remain held in Dilley, among them about 400 minors of age, in inadequate conditions, including lack of medical care and education for minors, overcrowding, food and water in poor condition, according to human rights organizations and lawyers.

It was inaugurated in 2014 as a center for migrant families, mainly women and children from Central America, and currently operates under contract with the private company CoreCivic for ICE.

The controversial detention center was closed for several years during the term of former President Joe Biden (2021-2024) and was reopened in 2025 by the Trump Administration as part of his campaign to accelerate the arrests and deportations of migrants.

The detention of migrant minors in the US has increased sharply during Trump’s term.

According to the Deportation Data Project, between January and October 2025, a monthly average of 170 children arrested, compared to 25 that were recorded during the last 16 months of the Biden Administration.