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Family held at ICE detention center begs Katie Britt for help: Our child ‘wants to die’
By Patrick Darrington | pdarrington@al.com
A Venezuelan family of three, including a father, pregnant mother and a 7-year-old daughter, say they have been held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility for more a month after an attempt to self-deport.
Now, the family is seeking assistance from U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala, to help them get back to Venezuela as the family says the conditions at Dilley Detention Center weigh on the mother, Edgarianny Gervis, and the child.
Britt is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. She plays a pivotal role in helping allocate and secure funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which ICE operates under.
Tim Miller of “The Bulwark” shared a letter on social media that the family sent to Britt on Aug. 13 asking, “with all our hearts, for your help to free us so that we can go back home to Venezuela.”
The family heard about @SenKatieBritt's supposed sympathy for the boy in the blue bunny hat. So they wrote her a letter & the 7 year old sent her this drawing. They just want to self-deport & leave the camp. ICE is too incompetent/sadistic to let them. https://t.co/FAXPc5Mzzw pic.twitter.com/KnTsggTHvd — Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 18, 2026
Edgarianny and her husband, Freddys Padilla Revilla, said they were inspired to reach out to Britt after she reportedly was moved by the detainment of a young boy in January and because they have a young daughter.
According to their letter, the couple lived in Pecos, Texas legally for three years where they worked and maintained their ICE check-ins while never getting in trouble.
The family discovered Edgarianny was pregnant earlier this summer and sought to self-deport back to Venezuela as President Donald Trump’s administration has advised.
Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign has sought to alter many immigration policies, including restricting the ability of immigrants to give birth in the country.
Edgarianny and Freddys said that they followed the proper instructions and were told they were approved for self-deportation by the government.
“On July 6, we went to our ICE check-in appointment as instructed,” the letter said.
“We believed we were going there to finalize our travel home. Instead, after we signed all the forms waiving all our rights, we were arrested.
“We were immediately taken into custody and transferred to Dilley. Since then, we have done everything we can to make clear that we want to return home. We withdrew our immigration appeal, waived our rights, and asked to return voluntarily. We were even told that we had been placed on a list for a flight home. Then we were taken off the list.”
Since their detainment, Edgarianny said she has not received proper medical care, nor an ultrasound, while their daughter has felt trapped and said that “she wants to die,” the letter alleges.
Dilley Detention Center is a private for-profit facility that houses families and has been condemned by advocacy groups for what they say are “inhumane conditions.”
In a statement to AL.com, Britt’s office said they inquired into the matter after receiving the letter from the family’s lawyer and were told by ICE that the family was previously issued a removal order but appealed it.
“Our office learned that the family could not be removed from the United States while the appeal of their removal order was pending,” the statement said.
“The appeal is now in the process of being withdrawn so that the family can soon be removed from the United States shortly thereafter.
“This shows that the removal process, when followed properly, is successfully delivering on President Trump’s mission to uphold law and order and remove those who are here illegally, which Senator Britt supports wholeheartedly.”
The family indicated in the letter that although they had been detained for over a month, DHS or ICE had provided no clear reason why they were being held in detention.
“Please do not make our seven-year-old daughter spend another day behind the walls of Dilley if there is a way to let our family go home,” the letter said.