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Children detained at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas have access to computers, physical activities and education, according to a video posted by Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, who said Democrats have turned the truth about the agency.
The 34-second clip posted by Gonzales to X shows the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in the San Antonio suburb of Dilley, about 72 miles southwest of the city. It is one of the few facilities that are occupied by families.
“In the coming days, you will see a lot of good politicians at the Dilley ICE Center in my district, #TX23,” Gonzales wrote. “It’s all for show. I’ve been there and seen the quality of service and policies @ICEgov is following.
“Our ICE agents and CBP officers are doing their job, but again, Democrats are doing everything they can to investigate the truth against law enforcement.”
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Signs Thursday at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Dilley, Texas. (Reuters/Kaylee Greenlee)
In the video posted by Gonzales, children are using computers in the library, reading at tables and sitting in classrooms, perhaps doing homework under what appears to be adult supervision.
Another part of the video shows a child playing on an indoor basketball hoop, a shaded picnic table area and children are seen playing “red light, green light” on an outdoor basketball court.
The video contradicts claims long held by many Democrats who have accused ICE of putting children in cages and keeping them in unsanitary and brutal conditions.
“I just want the truth to come out,” Gonzales told Fox News Digital in the video. “This idea that they are in cages, they are not being treated badly and all these other things are blatant lies.
“It’s easy to talk about a problem and then talk about emotional aspects or those that you want to use for political gain.”
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Representative Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, on Friday released a video taken of children at the ICE facility in Dilley, Texas, in which they were seen playing, studying in class and using computers in the library. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said he was denied entry to the Dilley facility even though he gave officials there 24 hours notice.
“This is amazing. It tells you these guys are hiding something,” Murphy said in the video. “If they don’t allow members of Congress to put in less than seven days’ notice, it tells you how much work they know they have to do to cover up and hide things they don’t want us to see.”
In another video, he said he met two families who have been detained for more than a month, their children are “scared” because of this incident.
Gonzales said he visits ICE detention facilities in his district and has taken hundreds of his congressional colleagues on tours of the facilities. However, Democratic officials have never visited while President Joe Biden was in office, he said.
During the Biden administration, facilities in Gonzales County were plagued by understaffing, she said.
Children using computers at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. (Attorney Tony Gonzales)
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“This is the reason why I say the Democrats are at the top right now,” Gonzales said. “They weren’t at any of my facilities when Biden was there.”
