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(Updated from March 30 pinch much signatories) Days aft another information of No Kings! protests brought Robert De Niro, Jana Fonda, Jimmy Kimmel, Bruce Springsteen and millions much retired connected nan streets to rally against Donald Trump, immoderate of nan aforesaid celebs and others are seeking to person an migration detention installation successful Texas unopen down ASAP.
And erstwhile Raffi and Ms. Rachel speak, possibly it’s clip to listen.
“No kid should beryllium locked successful an migration detention center,” says a petition besides signed by Oscar victor Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku, The Gilded Age‘s Morgan Spector and Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Andor‘s Diego Luna, Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany, and head Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.
Ava DuVernay, Jodie Foster, I Love Boosters head Boots Riley, Ben Stiller, and nan awesome Spike Lee person besides joined nan petition arsenic signatories, I’ve learned. So person nan iconic Joan Baez, Tig Notaro, Edward Norton, Alyssa Milano, Janelle Monáe , Quinta Brunson, and LA28 committee personnel Jessica Alba.
“We, nan undersigned, telephone for nan contiguous closure of nan Dilley Immigration Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) family detention halfway successful Texas and an extremity to nan detention of children and families, nan change.org originating missive adds. “Children held successful migration detention strengthen trauma, neglect and conditions that break basal standards of health, safety, dignity and quality rights.” (read nan afloat missive and its latest large sanction signatories below)
The missive is directed astatine backstage situation institution CoreCivic, on pinch Donald Trump, ICE Director Todd Lyons and now erstwhile Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. DHS did not respond to petition for remark from Deadline connected nan letter, nan now complete 2,600 and rising verified signatures it has received and its aims.
Keke Palmer, Madonna, Pose lead Billy Porter, shot icon Abby Wambach, Riley Keough, Ramy Yousef, Melissa Barrera, Mark Ruffalo, Bride director Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lena Dunham, and Hacks‘ Hannah Einbinder besides signed nan anti-Dilley letter. “It’s a Hell hole, a prison,” 1 signatory told Deadline of Dilley. “It’s a blight connected America.”
Hit pinch reports of disease, maltreatment and much wrong its walls, nan family and children oriented Dilley venue became well-known successful caller months erstwhile Liam Conejo Ramos was sent location by DHS and ICE.
The bluish chapeau and Spider Man backpack wearing five-year-old was picked up during nan fatal siege of Minneapolis and surrounding areas by Trump’s squad earlier this year, and sent to Texas aft being utilized arsenic bait by ICE to seizure Liam’s begetter Adrian Conejo Arias.
In an era of adjacent continuous cruelty by nan administration, nan imprisonment of nan boy and his begetter attracted monolithic media and governmental attraction and yet saw some released connected February 1. The asylum seeking family continues to conflict deportation orders to Ecuador.
In nan past respective weeks, nan number of families held astatine Dilley has fallen, according to quality authorities advocates and nan national government. Still, a number of protests person surgery retired since precocious January some extracurricular and wrong nan venue connected complete nan unspeakable conditions there.
Immensely celebrated kid pedagogue and entertainer Ms. Rachel, who has attracted a adjacent grade of blowback from nan MAGA crowd complete her anti-ICE outspokenness, says successful a connection astir nan Dilley petition: “Every child, everywhere, deserves to consciousness safe, to beryllium cared for, and to beryllium treated pinch dignity. We tin each work together that nary kid should beryllium locked successful an migration detention halfway and subjected to these sadistic conditions. This is not who we want to be.”
Read nan afloat petition to Trump and DHS here:
Close Dilley ICE Detention Center: Protect Children
No kid should beryllium locked successful an migration detention center. We, nan undersigned, telephone for nan contiguous closure of nan Dilley Immigration Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) family detention halfway successful Texas and an extremity to nan detention of children and families.
Children held successful migration detention strengthen trauma, neglect and conditions that break basal standards of health, safety, dignity and quality rights.
The harms of detaining children are known and good documented. Court filings of maltreatment against children person included refusals to supply cleanable water, rotten nutrient contaminated pinch worms, vulnerable aesculapian neglect, slumber deprivation, denial of ineligible counsel, nan separation of children from their families, and retaliation against families protesting nan inhumane conditions.
Children beryllium successful schools and connected playgrounds, not successful detention centers.
We impulse nan national authorities and CoreCivic to adjacent nan Dilley installation immediately, return children and families to nan homes and communities they were taken from and to extremity kid imprisonment now.
Our committedness does not extremity pinch closure. We request transparency, accountability, and systemic reforms to forestall these abuses from happening anyplace successful nan United States.
Sign connected to thief protect children and their families.
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Alok Patel MD, Board Certified Pediatric Hospitalist, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and Medical Journalist
Amanda Bryson, MD, MPH, Pediatrician, San Francisco, CA
Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
Anjali Malik, MD, Breast imaging radiologist
Ana Delgado, CNM, MS Clinical Professor, UCSF
Angela L. Rasmussen, PhD, University of Saskatchewan and Save America Movement
Anna Ruderman, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA, FAAP, Clinical Professor Stanford University School of Medicine
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Casey Revkin, Executive Director of Each Step Home
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Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS, Family Medicine
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Elissa Serapio, MD, Obstetrician-Gynecologist
Eliza Douvikas, MD, Board-Certified Pediatrician
Elora Mukherjee, Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor and Director, Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School
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Kate Duffy, Motherhood for Good Rights Lawyer
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Keke Palmer, Artist
Keri Garel, MD, OB GYN, Fellow, Physicians for Reproductive Health
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Lance Bass, Artist
Lara M. Jones, MD, FAAP, Double Board Certified Pediatrician, Pediatric Critical Care Doctor and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
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Leilah Pollock, MD MS, Family Physician
Lena Dunham, Artist
Leslie Treece, M.D., FAAP, Board-Certified Pediatrician
Lindsay Meyer-Harley, Founder, Still We Rise
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Lourdes Juarez, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care
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Mary Ngyuen, MD, MSc, Family and Community Medicine
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Mark Ruffalo, Artist
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Mansi Kotwal, MD/MPH, Double Board Certified Pediatrician, Allergist and Immunologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Madonna, Artist
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Megan Masten, MD, Complex Family Planning Physician
Megan Prior, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician
Melissa Barrera, Artist
Michelle Williams, Artist
Michael Chernus, Artist
Mickey Sumner, Artist
Montida Fleming, MD, Family and Community Medicine
Morgan Spector, Artist
MUNA (Katie Gavin, Naomi McPherson, Josette Maskin), Artist
Murray M Pollack, Professor of Pediatrics
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Dr. Naomi Lawrence-Reid, M.D., Board Certified Pediatrician
Natasha Lyonne, Artist
Naga Pannala MD, Senior Medical director, Archwell Health Board certified soul medicine, cardiology, echocardiography, atomic cardiology, and cardiac CT
Natalie Richman, ESQ.
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Nikki Sapiro Vinckier PA-C, Author of We Deserve More: Why Reproductive Healthcare is Broken–And What You Can Do About It
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