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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.