In more immigration news, a family from McAllen, Texas, that includes two teenage brothers who’ve won awards for their mariachi music, has been freed from immigration detention, after a delegation of Texas Democratic lawmakers pressed for their release. Eighteen-year-old Antonio Gámez-Cuéllar walked free from the El Valle Detention Center in Raymondville on Monday, and later in the day, his brothers, 14-year-old Caleb and 12-year-old Joshua, were released along with their parents from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. The family was detained on February 25 following a routine check-in with immigration officials. They entered the U.S. in May 2023 and had followed the Biden-era process of applying for asylum. Among the lawmakers who pressed for their release was Texas Democratic Congressmember Joaquin Castro.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: “These were upstanding folks who were following the law. They were — again, at the invitation of their congresswoman, those young men performed their mariachi music at the U.S. Capitol. And now they’ve been sitting here in this trailer prison, and we’re waiting for them to be released so that we can help them get home.”