Many of the children detained at Dilley had been living in the United States for years, before they were apprehended and taken to Texas. I have encountered the stories of three high school students from Detroit. Kerly Sosa Rivero dreamed of going to college. Antony Peña Sosa, a violin player, excelled in an Advanced Placement art course. Santiago Zamora Perez, a star baseball player with excellent grades, hoped to play in college. Then there were the stories of a 7-year-old second grader from Winooski, Vt., taken apparently with his mother, and a set of
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