911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center

EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

The voices on the emergency calls sound calm. Matter-of-fact. Routine.

“Frio County 911. What is your emergency?”

“I’m calling from the Dilley immigration center in Dilley, Texas. I’m calling for a little kid going through respiratory distress.”

The callers — medical staff inside the remote facility that houses hundreds of immigrant children and their parents in South Texas — tick through the clinical details: symptoms, vital signs, ages.

“He’s a 6-year-old male.”