Joaquin Castro

ICE has started collecting DNA at the Dilley Detention Facility, the only detention facility that is currently housing children. Today @joaquincastrotx hopped on @itsthemomentlive to give us the la...

The mother and son arrived in San Antonio this afternoon. Our children should be at school and with their family and friends. Not locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. Thank you @RepGregStanton...

ICE is keeping the DNA of people detained and we don’t have a clear answer what they’re doing with it. Maybe uploading it to the cloud. Maybe not, #NickValenciaNews #ICE #DNA #joaquincastro #explor...

Doing nothing is not an option anymore. This video was shot over a month ago, unfortunately numbers in Dilley have fluctuated since then. Pressure works, but it must be consistent. Please comment...

Today, on Memorial Day, we honor the fallen and their families. Their sacrifice and courage in service to our nation will never be forgotten. My Office was proud to gather at Fort Sam Houston Nat...

There are hundreds of thousands of green card applicants in the U.S. They are nurses and doctors, teachers and engineers, mechanics and farm workers. The Trump Administration wants to force them ou...

Under Donald Trump, ICE has become an abusive, rouge organization. Governors like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have made local police departments into agents of that abuse. Local law enforcement should...

Jose Danilo Diaz Sandoval should have never been deported. He had lived in the U.S. for nearly 20 years. He met his wife here and raised a family together. He was in the process of getting a green ...

Mario Alejandro Rodríguez Aranda is becoming sicker and sicker while he is being locked away in an ICE prison in Texas. He has been languishing since November. We’ve seen that denied or delayed med...

Please tag Congress members and ask them to join @joaquincastrotx in closing Dilley Trailer prison, which is harming precious children. Please thank @joaquincastrotx for his TIRELESS, HEROIC work t...

The Dilley Trailer Prison is making $13.1 million every month. In America, it is now the norm to commodify child suffering and allow private investors and companies like CoreCivic to profit from th...

We caught up with @joaquincastrotx to talk about his mission to honor more Latino music in our nation’s history! We had a great time sharing our family’s story and checking out his nominations for ...

My prayers are with the families impacted by the tragic shooting today at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Americans should never face violence at their places of learning and worship.

Happy 61st Birthday to the Head Start community who have been pushing for our kids to succeed in school! Today we celebrate their history and the work they do to support the next generation. I a...

Dreamers like Juan Chavez Velasco belong here. Juan should have never been in an ICE prison—away from his wife, newborn and children. We’ll keep fighting Trump’s cruel mass deportation machine to...

Juan Chavez Velasco has been released! Juan was on his way to the hospital to see his newborn daughter in the NICU when ICE targeted and detained him. He is a DACA recipient and was a medical wor...

Darisbel Quintero Morillo and her husband Gilbert were living in Dallas and hoping to start a family. Darisbel learned that she was pregnant after she had been detained and locked away in an ICE pr...

Great news! I am proud to share that three of the songs you helped nominate were selected to be inducted into the prestigious National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress—“Mambo No. 5” by...

Victor, Monserrat, and Betania are on their way home! Thank you to the entire San Antonio community for speaking out and demanding their release from the Dilley trailer prison. We will not stop unt...

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar Barrios has been released! She should never have been locked away by ICE. As an emergency and trauma doctor, she served patients in South Texas with dedication. I am grateful th...