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I just visited Dilley detention center

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  Last summer, teenagers Antonio and Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar performed on Capitol Hill at the invitation of their Member of Congress. While they were in DC, they visited the White House.   Less than a year later, they had been detained and unjustly put in ICE custody.    Caleb and his parents, along with a younger brother, were at the Dilley detention center in South Texas for more than a week. Antonio wasn’t with them — he’s 18, and had been taken to a different detention center for adults.    I visited Dilley today with some of my fellow House Democrats, and I am so relieved to be able to say that the entire Gámez-Cuéllar family is coming home. The Gámez-Cuéllar family followed the rules. They came into the country at a border crossing in Brownsville and claimed asylum. They attended court dates and check-ins.   ICE detained them anyway — like so many others.   Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are asking us to believe their brutal immigration enforc...