How a Disney World vacation turned into 4 months in immigration detention

By: Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: February 21, 2026

Words: 1,299

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside. More than three dozen did.

One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia. …

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