Gonzales video shows conditions inside Texas ICE family facility

Children held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Texas have access to computers, physical activities and education, according to a video released by Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, who said Democrats were distorting the truth about the agency.

The 34-second clip, which Gonzales aired on Channel X, shows the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in the San Antonio suburb of Dilley, about 70 miles southwest of the city. It is one of the rare facilities where families can stay.

“In the coming days, you will see a lot of grandstanding by politicians at the Dilley ICE Center in my district #TX23,” Gonzales wrote. “It’s all for show. I’ve been there and seen the state-of-the-art facilities and protocols that @ICEgov follows.

“Our ICE agents and CBP personnel are doing their jobs, and Democrats are once again doing everything they can to twist the truth against law enforcement.”

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In the video posted by Gonzales, children use computers in a library, read books at a table, sit in classrooms and do schoolwork, presumably under adult supervision.

Another portion of the video shows a child playing in an indoor basketball hoop, a shaded picnic table area, and children playing “red light, green light” on an outdoor basketball court.

The video contradicts claims long held by many Democrats who accuse ICE of putting children in cages and keeping them in unhealthy and inhumane conditions.

“I want the truth to come out,” Gonzales told Fox News Digital about the video. “The fact that they are in cages, that they are being mistreated and all that stuff is a complete lie.

“It’s easy to talk about an issue and then only talk about the emotional parts or the parts you want to use for your political gain.”

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, on Friday released video of children at an ICE facility in Dilley, Texas, playing, learning in the classroom and using computers at the library. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said he was denied entry to the Dilley center despite giving authorities 24 hours’ notice.

“This is surprising. It shows these guys have something to hide,” Murphy said in a video. “If they don’t let members of Congress in in less than seven days, that tells you they know how much work they have to do to cover up and hide the things they don’t want us to see.”

In another video, he said he met with two families who had been detained for more than a month and who said their children were “terrified” by the experience.

Gonzales said he frequently visits ICE detention centers in his district and has hosted hundreds of his congressional colleagues on tours of the centers. But he said Democratic officials did not visit while President Joe Biden was in office.

He said during the Biden administration, facilities in the Gonzales area suffered from limited space.

Children using computers at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. (Rep. Tony Gonzales)

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“That’s why I say the Democrats are in the stands right now,” Gonzales said. “They weren’t anywhere at any of my facilities when Biden was around.”