The family’s lawyer had sought their release on medical grounds. They were freed from detention days after NBC News brought attention to their case.
A family of Russian asylum-seekers was released from a South Texas immigrant detention center on Wednesday after more than four months in custody — an ordeal they say left the children anxious, sickened and afraid.
Nikita, his wife, Oksana, and their three children had been held since October at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, where they said they endured worms and mold in their food, hourslong waits for medicine and restless nights under lights that never fully dimmed.
“Thank God,” Nikita said, speaking to a reporter in Russian after learning the news. “We’re ready.”
They were freed about a week after their attorney wrote a letter seeking their release on medical grounds and five days after NBC News published an article detailing what the family described as their nightmare in detention.
Damn. Going from Putin to Trump is apparently not much better.
If this poster-child family of “Caucasians” had it bad, I can only imagine how the Dilley concentration camp goons are torturing their kidnap victims who don’t flag the vision of racial purity.
Four-year-old Konstantin wanted to be reunited with his favorite stuffed animal, Stitch from the Disney movie “Lilo & Stitch,” which had been confiscated when officers detained them.
Poor kid! They wouldn’t even let him keep his plushie while he was locked in a giving concentration camp! I’m glad he and the rest of his family are heading back to something more like a normal life. Hopefully they can keep it that way and get over this trauma. But sadly, I’m not holding my breath about that.
It’s embarrassing to live in a country that sticks asylum seekers in concentration camps.
