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By Simone Orendain, OSV News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(OSV News) \u2014 Catholic leaders, including an official from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 migration office, reiterated a pastoral approach to the issue of child detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Feb. 3 statement to OSV News, David Spicer, the policy and engagement director for the USCCB\u2019s Secretariat of Migration, called for federal efforts to be \u201cguided by Christ\u2019s call in the Gospel to solidarity with \u2018the least of these,’\u201d citing Jesus\u2019 words in Matthew 25:40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spicer reiterated the bishops\u2019 call for \u201chumane, community-based alternatives\u201d to family detention following the recent release of a 5-year-old from Minnesota from a Texas family detention facility and an investigative news report that found a sixfold increase in child detentions at that same facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report<\/a> by investigative journalists from the Marshall Project, a non-profit media outlet specializing in criminal justice news, was posted days before the Jan. 31 release of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liam and Conejo Arias were taken into custody Jan. 20 after they had just arrived home from Liam\u2019s preschool in a Minneapolis suburb. The family\u2019s attorney told media they had reportedly entered the country from Ecuador in December 2024 via the Texas border seeking asylum and had been taking the necessary legal steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The father and son were released after a Texas federal district judge deemed it unconstitutional to hold them, citing the writ of habeas corpus, which determines unlawful detention. They had been held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, 70 miles southwest of San Antonio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Zuna, a fourth-grader from Liam\u2019s Twin Cities school district, was also detained for a month at the same Texas family detention center<\/a> before being released with her mother Feb. 4. Three other students from the same school district are reportedly still in the Texas facility after being detained with guardians. A Feb. 3 letter from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz<\/a> to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pleading for the release of other Minnesota children from family detention mentioned reports of a measles outbreak at the Dilley facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Number of children detained likely higher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Marshall Project news analysis of children\u2019s detentions in Dilley<\/a> shows that from the time President Donald J. Trump took office in January 2025 through October that year, ICE had detained an average of 170 children per day. On some days, ICE held 400 or more child detainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Biden administration, in the period between September 2023 to January 2025, ICE detained an average of 25 children per day, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figures came from the Deportation Data Project<\/a>, an online database based on government records run by immigration law and freedom of information attorneys and academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report noted the numbers did not include recent family ICE arrests from Minnesota, nor statistics of children being held without guardians by Customs and Border Patrol or the Office of Refugee Resettlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report highlighted the poor mental state of the detained children, who suffered from depression and anxiety, as well as the deplorable conditions that detained parents described in court documents, which were also reported last year by several news outlets. The report also raised the alarm of the possibility of a child dying while in ICE detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only a matter of time before we see a child die within Dilley or another facility,\u201d Kristin Kumpf, coordinator for the National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention, said in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Jan. 25, more than 70,760 individuals are in ICE custody, with 74.2% of those detained having no criminal conviction, and many of those with convictions were responsible for minor offenses such as traffic violations, according to Syracuse University\u2019s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Associated Press reports the Trump administration has also created at least three \u201ctender age\u201d shelters<\/a> for young child migrants, including babies, forcibly separated from their guardians at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternatives to family detention<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor many years, the USCCB has spoken strongly in opposition to family detention, citing the long-term harm it has been demonstrated to inflict on children in particular,\u201d Spicer told OSV News in his Feb. 3 statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He pointed to an August statement by Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso<\/a>, then-chairman of the conference\u2019s Committee on Migration, who said resuming and expanding family detention \u201cinflicts a moral wound on our society.\u201d The bishop also voiced particular concern that \u201cpregnant and postpartum mothers and their young children\u201d faced risks in detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spicer also highlighted in the bishops\u2019 special pastoral message, posted in November, regarding the country\u2019s ramped up immigration crackdown \u201cincreasing concern\u201d over the lack of access to religious and pastoral services for all detained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a joint Catholic-Evangelical report published in 2025 by World Relief,<\/a> 80% of those at risk of Trump\u2019s mass deportation effort across the country are Christian, with the largest proportion \u2014 61% \u2014 being Catholic. The report found one in six Catholics in America (18%) is either vulnerable to deportation or lives with someone who is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn place of family detention, the USCCB has repeatedly advocated for humane, community-based alternatives, which are not only proven to be more cost-effective but feature high rates of compliance with immigration court proceedings when accompanied by case management services,\u201d said Spicer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018There is always a way to be human to one another\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Carolina Rivera, an immigration federal advocate and liaison attorney at Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., known as CLINIC<\/a>, which works closely with the USCCB, called the report \u201ca stark reminder of how the government\u2019s enforcement priorities are not always using those standards of human dignity and respect for the vulnerable population, especially children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rivera told OSV News that children in detention is one of CLINIC\u2019s main advocacy issues and in its work of directly engaging with federal agencies, there\u2019s a \u201cblackout.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have not received much communication from the government regarding this particular issue,\u201d she said, adding that increasingly the only recourse is going through litigation, as in the case of Liam and his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day that Liam and Conejo Arias were released from the Dilley facility, which is part of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Archbishop Gustavo Garc\u00eda-Siller told the archdiocesan TV outlet San Antonio Catholic that the detainment \u201cwas a trauma for (Liam)\u201d as described by his father. Conejo Arias told media his son was not eating and became unusually quiet and depressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe pray for more humane treatment of those who are being sent to do these raids \u2014 that they be human, that they have a heart to respect human dignity<\/a>,\u201d said Archbishop Garc\u00eda-Siller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe all agree that people who have a criminal background, they need to comply and carry consequences, but innocent people (being taken into custody), and just because (of) profiling<\/a>, that is not acceptable,\u201d he added. \u201cWe know there\u2019s not much sometimes people feel they can do, but we cannot be accomplices of those situations. So we pray for Liam, for his family and so many people in the same situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter his or her age, \u201ca person deserves to be treated as God created,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd we, being created by God, too, we can understand that beyond any other rhetoric or story or whatever. There is always a way to be human to one another, and for us who have faith in Jesus Christ, to love as Jesus has loved us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: People take part in a protest at the South Texas Family Residential Center, where Adrian Conejo and his son Liam Conejo Ramos, who were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minnesota, were being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, in Dilley, Texas, Jan. 28, 2026. The pair were released on a judge\u2019s Jan. 31 order and returned to Minneapolis the following day. (OSV News photo\/Antranik Tavitian, Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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