In immigration news, there are disturbing new details about Egyptian mother Hayam El Gamal and her five children, who’ve been imprisoned at the only U.S. family detention center for more than nine months — the longest known family detention under President Trump’s second term. In 59 pages of declarations that include handwritten letters and pictures drawn by the five children, the family details abhorrent medical care, inedible food and a disregard for their religious freedom to practice Islam at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. The documents were first published by The Texas Tribune. In one note, El Gamal’s 16-year-old son writes, “This prolonged detention has and continues to destroy our lives. It is slowly killing us on the inside. Our mental health is at great risk. It is rapidly deteriorating with every day we spend here. Our lives are without purpose. We are just waiting for this nightmare to end.” Under a federal 1997 settlement agreement, parents and children can generally not be imprisoned for more than 20 days in immigration jails, although the Trump administration is suing to reverse that ruling — and has violated it many times at the ICE family jail in Dilley, Texas.