A San Antonio immigration attorney says a 9-year-old girl locked inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley has told him she no longer wants to be alive after months in federal custody. Eric Lee says the girl’s phone calls and the drawings she and her siblings hand him during visits show a deepening despair as their confinement drags on. The younger children gave him pictures, including one of the house they miss and another of the family trapped inside a cage, which he says reveal how they are trying to cope inside the facility.
Lee says the family includes a mother, an 18-year-old daughter, a 16-year-old son, the 9-year-old and 5-year-old twins, and that they are Egyptian nationals who immigrated from Kuwait, according to the San Antonio Current……