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All Eyes on Dilley

Tags: texas
DATE POSTED:January 29, 2026
People protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement as they march toward the South Texas Family Residential Center, in Dilley, on January 28, 2026On Wednesday morning, cars and buses from around the state pulled into the gravel parking lot behind the park on Main Street in Dilley, where a bright-green-and-red statue reminds visitors that the tiny South Texas town of around three thousand people was once the watermelon capital of Texas. Beside the statue, Reverend Erin Walter, a petite redhead wearing clergy garb and pink sneakers, watched as the crowd grew to around two hundred people, including a couple dozen clergy members. Some wore brightly colored stoles over their fleeces and sweaters in the 50-degree weather; others donned clerical collars. One Franciscan priest wore his brown habit and a plaid flat cap. The outsized religious presence was deliberate. Several members of Walter’s group, the Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry,…

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Tags: texas