U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro is calling for the release of a migrant family from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility an hour southwest of San Antonio, warning the incarceration has major health risks for one of their children. The family, who were seeking asylum in Washington state before being detained during an immigration court hearing, have a 6-year-old son with a life-threatening kidney disease. They’re being held at the recently reopened South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, a facility that made headlines during the first Trump administration for lack of medical care that may have resulted in the preventible deaths of infants.
