My Experience Inside An ICE Detention Center… The Truth Nobody Talks About

Added: 2026-05-25

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[00:00:21]Well, thank you for those who been showing a lot of love and support. I do appreciate little update on the wifey.

[00:00:26]She's doing okay. She's doing better than the past day. So hopefully she even told me, "Hey, you want to make donuts tomorrow? I I can I can help you, but you have to do this." I was like, "No, man. Just relax and just take a break.

[00:00:40]Just take a break. It's going to be okay. It's trust me, it's going to be okay. So hopefully uh she gets better like give her like four more days or whatever the case might be, right?

[00:00:49]Whatever time she needs. Simple as that.

[00:00:52]Now it is Memorial Memorial weekend.

[00:00:57]Memorial Day weekend, I believe. And you know, it took me a long time to actually understand the meaning of this. You know, when I went to the US as a kid, I do I did remember that people didn't work, that people went to the park and just spend it with the family, right?

[00:01:13]But actually, I didn't understand the meaning of it, right? That was just another holiday. But now it's is it's a a weekend where uh people remember those who basically lost became alive serving the US, you know, and we all have family members. I even have family members that are serving and have served uh the US, man.

[00:01:40]And you know, I'm pretty sure they know a friend that sadly uh he's no longer with us. And it's it today's the weekend just to remember him. You know what I mean? It's not a happy, you know, it cannot be a happy. It's just it's just a a time to just remember those who actually actually sacrifice themselves, right? To have what you guys have. You know, I cannot show hatred towards nobody towards the US because at the end of the day, they accepted accepted me.

[00:02:10]They accepted my family and they're feeding my family right now. So, I'm not one of those guys that, oh, I'm bitter because I got deported. I cannot be that. I'm sorry. I'm not that. And I would not be like that. Now, on today's video, I want to talk about how my experience was in a detention center.

[00:02:26]How many times we have seen those reports and where you see a lot of cages where people are laying down like 50 people in one cage and they have this um paper that seem to be out of aluminum foil and stuff like that. I don't know what it is but uh it's supposed to help them keep them warm, right? But I seen those those um those videos on on the news, right? I remember seeing that and I was like, man, that's that's crazy. And it it was be before this president came, right?

[00:03:02]Those things had a long they were there for a long time. But I don't I don't like to get political because at the end of the day, this is not political, right? It's just experience and it is what it is. Simple. It is what it is. So when I did arrive to McFarland um ICE detention center, right? I remember getting out of this van, right? It was like it was like three of us I think.

[00:03:25]No, it had to be like probably like five of us. It was like five of us and they put us on different holding cells, right? By ourselves or at least they put me by myself, right? Remember the officer came through as me, hey man, give me your information. I had to sign uh fill up this paperwork. I don't know for what, but your name, date of birth, stuff like that. All that information, right? and he brought me some uh some clothes, some clothes from uh from their um from this facility. Okay. Gave me a two eggs stuff like that. So, I got dressed.

[00:03:57]I remember he brought some a peanut butter peanut butter sandwich. I don't even think that thing had a a jelly, right? And I think it was an apple and and that's it. Not even water. How like this guy crazy, man. not even milk to help me uh just uh pass the peanut butter man. Come on, bro. So, I did. I was waiting. Then eventually uh they took us to this like it was like a pot.

[00:04:23]Let's just put it. It's like a potting where there's just a opening, right?

[00:04:28]Something is I don't know. I'm I'm used to something else, but it was just opening with a lot of uh just beds on on the on the floor, right? They're not on the floor, but you know where you can see them. So people, it was almost like a just open and there was a bunch of beds, right? And it was just one officer per uh pot. So remember going in there was maybe like 20 to 15 people in that pot. At that time that I arrived, it was me and I think like two other people came with me to my pot. The other guys, I don't know where they went, but seemed like most of those who were in that pot, they were from Mexico. I heard that there was other pots in where people were actually fighting their cases who have been in that institution or that that facility or detention center for for years. I'm talking about one or two years that they're trying to fight their case, man.

[00:05:21]And hopefully it worked, right? I don't know why they couldn't bail out and fight from the streets, but it's not my business. I didn't ask because I didn't care. I was like, you know, I'm just trying to get out of here. You know, it does not feel good uh to be detained when you know you didn't break break the law. I didn't break break the law. At the end of the day, I went to the US as a legal person with my residency and after I did what I did, she just let me out. I shouldn't be I felt like it was unfair. But I do understand what is called a due process, right? You had to make sure that hey man look this was going on and that's why I was being tamed because I was owed a due process which I do appreciate it right now I do understand it at that time I like man just let me out man give me the papers I sign it I remember before I even went to the detention center I did an officer were like look man just sign your volunteer uh deportation and you're good most of the time they just going to kick you out right and I did it was sent to a judge and no they were told me no you have to actually see a judge because it's your first time being deported and they have to give you I guess they have to you have to listen to your rights, right? Because you were a resident of the United States. You didn't come to the US as an illegal person, right?

[00:06:46]That's how they call it. And um it was an experience where you had tablets. I mean you could see movies. I was like what? You know, I was able to call my family through like FaceTime. It was like five. They give you this tablets and you'll get like a phone call, like a FaceTime phone call once a once uh every every day. I think it was like every day. I don't know how much it cost, but I remember the wife calling me and stuff like that. And I'm calling I think you can get it from uh different people in the same time. So, it was something great, right? Of course, I just wanted to get out and I didn't care what was going on. A lot of people that got there, I remember they're trying to fight their cases and once I knew like, man, you went you were locked up, right? Yeah. Okay. You're trying to fight your case? Yeah. And then I was like, what you going to claim that you cannot go to Mexico because of what, dude? If you never been to Mexico, so how you going to fight your deportation? If you never been in Mexico, you don't even know if you can be over there or not, right?

[00:07:58]Maybe once you touch Mexico and you be like, man, I'm messed up. I can't be right here now. That might be different.

[00:08:03]But people were doing that, right? Like, oh no, I can't be right there. I'mma apply for that visa or something like that. I don't know what visa was it. And I heard people that they were offering them to send them to a different country. Yep. I don't know where. I don't I don't even know that that's true, right? But they were they were telling me, "No, they they they give me an option, man." So I I can't send you if you're scared of going to your country. I can send you to a different countries. A different country will take you. But in the US, Europe will not be accepted, right? And I guess if you can't go to your country, you can go somewhere else. So I did come across people. The longer I stay right there, more people start uh coming in. And again, it was during the time of COVID uh 19. So there was the distance and stuff like that. There was the mask. So it was beds one bed was occupied once was empty occupied empty and that's how it was man. Um I remember just walking going to the yard which is basically just nothing but dirt outside walking the track trying to work out and the heat cuz it was like 98. It was very hot. So, it was very difficult to work out and just to keep you your your mind occupied, right? Cuz usually uh that's what you do. You try to work out. You're trying to distract yourself from thinking things that you shouldn't be thinking and so you don't stress. At the end of the day, I was not stressing. I already knew what was going to happen to me. But it was just a matter of time. Um before I think like five five days before I went to see a judge a officer from I believe ICE right came to visit me uh gave me a paper I have to sign whatever I needed to sign just to make sure that everything was good and then after that I went and see the judge and where the judge told me okay well you're going to be um this was going on you came in front of me because of this and you're going to be banned for this amount on the years and you know I had to take it you know at that point he was like do you want to fight it or not? I said no man I'm just I'm just coming here just to sign my thing and I want to go home and a lot of people have same why you why you didn't fight to stay in in the US because I already knew that what I did meant that I had to be deported.

[00:10:26]Should I ask for my should I ask money for my family so I can u save my selfish uh self because at the end of the day I committed a selfish act right and I already took my family through a lot and now to come out and be like hey mom hey dad brother hey sister I might need some uh some money so I can get a lawyer because I want to fight for to be led in the US. Oh man, at the end of the day, I knew that they left me in the US, which I wish it was at that point. And why did I wish I was left in the US at that point? Because that's all I knew. You know, I know the streets. I know how to get a job. I had a job lined up. So, I knew how what I was going to do. I was going to do the same thing that I'm doing right here, just work and trying to get on my feet. Right now, when it came to Mexico, it was I don't have nobody right there. I don't have a job lined up and it's going to be difficult.

[00:11:27]So that was the reason why I was like, man, I I wish they would have left me right there. But I guess now that they got me, send me what whatever you're going to send me. I guess I had to figure it out. And thankfully I did, right? Thankfully, I did. But it was a an experience that I'm not going to forget, right? Because at the end of the day, everybody who was in that room was going through the same process. A lot of people were telling me their stories of what had happened or how they picked them up, working, how their kids I I seen people like people coming from the streets, man, dressed like seem like they were working and taken into that detention center. And I see their families, man, crying, like their daughter and their wife crying knowing what was going to happen to the the men of the family, right? Sent to Mexico. And it is sad, man. When I when I witnessed that before I went to the detention center, because you go to different spots uh before you actually hit the detention center, I seen that and it made me sad. Honestly, made me sad. Uh once I was in detention center, I was like, man, we just right here.

[00:12:39]let's just get along and keep pushing and you know just another experience in life. I mean we've been through a lot in life and I feel this is what has made us who we are appreciative.

[00:12:54]Um we are not arrogant because we trying to keep it humble. Keep it humble man.

[00:13:02]People might like it, people might hate it. Oh, well, I'm not here to be liked by everybody, but I'm just here to share my experience and how it was. I know that that detention center was a headache for my family, especially when I was getting released that you know what they did? They gave me whatever had I had money in cash in dollars. So, I was like, "Oh man, what do I get robbed?" That was a thing I was thinking, man. They gave me money. I heard that they just to give you a check. No, they gave me cash, $100, like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[00:13:43]And I was like, oh my god, I have my dress out. So, I remember we had a big deal with the phones, whether they were accepted or not, which they were. They tell me, "Hey, they can't send your phones." They always used to tell they can't send your phones. So, I'm over over there reading the the rules and stuff like that. Like, man, it does not say nowhere right here that you cannot get a phone. So I told my family, "Hey, send me a phone." And if they send it back, they send it back. And they sent me a phone. They kept it. But for some reason, they were telling everybody, "You cannot have a phone." For some reason, I don't know why, but I got my phone. It was turned off. It was charged. And when I it was time for me to get kicked out to Mexico. Um, it it came with me, right? And once I hit the across the line, all of that stuff was given to me. I got on the phone, called my family. I'm right here, you know. But I do remember when when I was on that tank waiting to be transferred because it was my time. I already signed. I went to see the the judge. I already got kicked out say, "Hey man, you need to get out of here." And I was like, "Hey, no problem. Send me out." Right? So within 3 days of me seeing a judge, that's when this happened and they gave me that cash and I were like the whole time I didn't know what to do with it. I was like, "Man, if I go to TJ, no TJ, man. There's TJ's ghetto, right? like where I'm going to put this money, right? So, I'm like, should I put it with between my uh my pants? Cuz I got some uh a pair of 50 ones that my family sent me. All nice, you know, crispy and stuff like that. And and I was, man, where I'm going to hide this money. So, I put I tucked it in like within the the pants, man. I I was doing all kinds of different stuff because I didn't want to get caught up on something, right? And it was a crazy ass experience because I remember when I got out I was transferred to a different um holding facility because now it's not a a detention center. It's just a facility where people just come and you take this bus and go to LA downtown LA to which is going to be your last stop and from right there you're going to end up in TJ.

[00:15:44]I remember it took us like man like 12 hours man 12 hours and that was the worst 12 hours from my part because I couldn't communicate with my family and actually be like hey man are you going to wait for me right down the line or what's going on you know I cannot have that communication so can you imagine how I was from the other side as my family they didn't know where I was when they were calling the detention center and saying uh what happened with with me right and they're like oh no he got released already hold on it says He's still in custody. What you mean? He got released, but we don't have them over here and we cannot share that information. Like, what do you mean you can't share that information? You act like you're you're trans transporting El Chapo, man. Like, come on. It's just a a person who's being sent to Mexico and people and his family want to wait for him. So, it was one of those things that it was difficult, stressful over the family, was stressful for me, man. But at the end of the day, man, I remember traveling through the that 101, I believe, right? the San Diego where you see the ocean, man. Beautiful ocean, seeing the beautiful houses, seeing the the checkpoint. There's a checkpoint before you hit the the borderline, right? And just traveling and seeing all those cars and be like, man, I'm not going to see this no more. Just take it in and that's it. Right? I remember that. going to the freeway, seeing how people were parked on the side of the road, right? There's like little things where people can park just to admire the ocean, man. And I'm like, man, there's ocean in Mexico, though. But just the the whole setup, right? Like, man, I'm not going to see this no more.

[00:17:26]It was one of those moments, man, that as I was driving, everything was spinning.

[00:17:32]And you know, at the end of the day, I was thankful um being put on that line and crossing over where I did give information and it was a blessing at the end of the day, right? It was a blessing being able to touch land as a free person. So hopefully you like this story. With this with this um being said, that's it to next video, man. And I'm just sharing my experience again. That's what this channel is about. Just sharing what I went through, sharing what we doing. And thank you guys for the support.

[00:18:15]With this being said, bye-bye.