Pepper spray is used by Texas troopers to disperse protesters outside the South Texas Family Residential Center detention facility, Jan. 28, 2026Texas state police officers on Wednesday used tear gas to disperse a demonstration outside a US immigration detention facility where protesters demanded the release of a 5-year-old Ecuadoran boy among others swept up in the Trump administration's immigration clampdown. About 100 protesters gathered at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley on Wednesday, carrying signs accusing the federal agents of terrorising communities. And we need people to pay attention to the midterm elections this year," local elected official Christina Morales told AFP. National outcry followed images of the apparently terrified preschooler, dressed in a fluffy blue bunny hat and wearing his school backpack, being held by immigration officers who were seeking to arrest the boy's father in Minneapolis. Castro also demanded the release of everyone else being held at the privately-run facility, saying "there are no criminals in Dilley.