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![Immigration: Garet Bleir
@GaretBleir
1/8 Yesterday, Francisco Galicia, a high school senior born in
Dallas, TX called his mother for the first time after being
released from nearly a month of illegal detainment in U.S.
Concentration camps at the hands of CBP and ICE. He was
held in "inhumane" conditions, he told me.
South Texas
566 Veterans Drive
3:02 PM Jul 24, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
Replying to @GaretBleir
2/8 Francisco, a U.s. born citizen, was detained by Border Patrol on June 27th at a
checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas while driving with his friends on their way to a college
soccer scouting event. At the checkpoint, he showed Border Patrol agents proof of
his birth in the U...
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Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
3/8 he had on him - his Texas State ID, his wallet-sized birth certificate, and his social
security card, but the agents told him they believed the documents weren't real, his
attorney told me. For the entire three weeks he was held captive in CBP custody,
Francisco was not...
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Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
4/8 allowed to use the phone, even for calls to his attorney or to his mother who
feared he would be deported. It wasn't until Saturday, after being transferred to ICE
custody, that he was allowed to make a collect phone call.
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Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
5/8 Despite multiple attempts by family members and his attorney to give further
proof of his U.S. citizenship, it wasn't until the attorney took this to the news media
and grassroots activists throughout Texas that ICE finally released Francisco, she says.
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Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
6/8 The attorney was told that she would have to present the documents to ICE
officials upon arrival at South Texas Detention Complex in Pearsall, TX but after a
handful of activists and reporters arrived at the detention facility...
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Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
7/8. we watched as ICE officials released Francisco without even speaking to the
attorney. This further shows that the officials not only had the proper documentation
for his release, they also knew that they had the proper documentation and that he
was a U.S. citizen.
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Garet Bleir @GaretBleir 21h
8/8 I'll be sharing more updates soon, along with videos and photos showing what
happened while we were there as soon as possible. Photo: Garet Bleir - Journalism
arctic-hands:
swan2swan:
swan2swan:
If you haven’t seen this story, look up his name: Francisco Galicia.
Expect to see him come 2020, when the debates begin and the political battle heats up. Expect to see him in a suit testifying in court, or before Congress. This young man is a witness and a victim, and the fact that this isn’t a more prominent story on every news station is what truly frightens me.
From The Dallas News:
Galicia says he lost 26 pounds during that time in a South Texas immigrant detention center because officers didn’t provide him with enough food.
He said he wasn’t allowed to shower and his skin was dry and dirty.
He and 60 other men were crammed into an overcrowded holding area where they slept on the floor and were given only aluminum-foil blankets, he said. Some men had to sleep on the restroom area floor.
Ticks bit some of the men and some were very sick, Galicia said. But many were afraid to ask to go to the doctor because CBP officers told them their stay would start over if they did, he said.
I would remind you that concentration camps are actually real.
“I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, ‘You don’t have rights to anything’,” Francisco Galicia said.
This is happening.
[the screencapped tweets are in initial link]](https://pics.onsizzle.com/garet-bleir-garetbleir-1-8-yesterday-francisco-galicia-a-high-school-64631950.png)
