2 months ago
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, head Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and galore more.
“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.
A blight connected America successful almost each measurement imaginable and deed 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.
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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Abdi Nazemian, Artist
Abby Wambach, Artist
ActionAid USA
Adwoa Agyarkowah, MD, Family and Community Medicine
Aisha Mays, MD, Family Medicine and Adolescent Medicine Physician
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Artist
Ali Wentworth, Artist
Aliya Rahman, Software technologist and Social Justice Activist
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
Anita K Patel, MD, FAAP, Double Board Certified Pediatrician, Pediatric Critical Care Doctor and Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Arghavan Salles, MD PhD, Clinical Associate Professor
Ariana DeBose, Artist
Aron Accurso, Artist
Ashlyn Brown, MD, Family Medicine
Ashlyn Harris, Artist
Ashley Jeanlus, MD, FACOG, OBGYN
Ashley M. Cozzo, MD, FAAP, Double Board Certified Pediatrician, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Avanthi Jayaweera, MD, Family Medicine
Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA, FAAP, Clinical Professor Stanford University School of Medicine
Alyssa Milano, Artist
America Ferrera, Artist
Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King
Bianca Allison MD MPH, Primary Care Pediatrician
Billy Porter, Artist
Bobby Lopez, Artist
Brandi Carlisle, Artist
Breanna Stewart, Artist
Britney Griner, Artist
Brittany Mitchell, MD, FAAP, Board Certified Pediatrician
Caitlin Blau, DO, Family Medicine
Carrie Coon, Artist
Casey Revkin, Executive Director of Each Step Home
Cherien Dabis, Artist
Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS, Family Medicine
Christine Jackson, DO/MPH, Ob/Gyn
Chris Perfetti, Artist
Christina Ricci, Artist
Dr Cindy Brough, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician
Celine Song, Artist
Cobie Smulders, Artist
Conny Moody, MBA, FNAP
Constance Wu, Artist
Cynthia Nixon, Artist
Danielle Johnson, DO, OB/GYN
Darren Criss, Artist
Devki Joshi, MD, Los Angeles General Medical Center Ob/Gyn
Diego Luna, Artist
Diana Perez, MD, Family and Community Medicine
Donovan Patton, Artist
Drew Scott, Artist
Elaine Wentworth, Artist
Elizabeth Banks, Artist
Elizabeth Uy-Smith MD, MPH, MAS, Community and Family Medicine
Elisabeth Sulger, MD, OB/GYN and Complex Family Planning, Physicians for Reproductive Health
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
Elise D Berlan, MD, MPH, FAAP, FSAHM, Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine
Elliot Page, Artist
Emily Murphy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics
Erinma Ukoha, MD, MPH, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician
Elias Kass, ND
Eva Longoria, Artist
Frances Fisher, Artist
Gabor Maté, Artist
Gavin Yamey MD, MPH, Professor of Global Health and Public Policy
Glennon Doyle, Artist
Goleen Samari, PhD, MPH, MA, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Grant Gustin, Artist
Gregg Gonsalves PhD, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health
Gracie Abrams, Artist
Hannah Einbinder, Artist
Illana Glazer, Artist
Indigo Girls (Emily Sailers, Amy Ray), Artist
Isabel Lee, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Ilina Das Ewen, Child Health Advocate
Janicza Bravo, Artist
Jane Fonda, Artist
Javier Bardem, Artist
Jasmine Chan, MD, Family Medicine
Jen Tullock, Artist
Jennifer Cook, Artist
Jennifer Lai, DO, Family and Community Medicine
Jennifer Lincoln, MD, FACOG
Jenny Jin, MD
Jess Craven creator/ writer of chop wood transportation h2o substack
Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist
Jessica M Garcia, Artist
Jessica Mitter, DO, MSc, Family Medicine Physician
Joanna Parga Belinkie, MD, IBCLC, Clinical Neonatologist and Pediatrician
John Cusack, Artist
John Legend, Artist
Jody Steinauer, MD, PhD, OBGYN
Jordan Walker Ross, Artist
Josh Dela Cruz, Artist
Joseph S. Thomas, MD
Jyothi Marbin, MD, Pediatrician
Katie Couric, Artist
Kaitlin Becker, Artist
Kathryn Grody, Artist
Kate Duffy, Motherhood for Good Rights Lawyer
Kat Vargas, Content Creator and Founder of Howdy Politics
Keke Palmer, Artist
Keri Garel, MD, OB GYN, Fellow, Physicians for Reproductive Health
King Princess, Artist
Kristina Anderson-Lopez, Artist
Lance Bass, Artist
Lara M. Jones, MD, FAAP, Double Board Certified Pediatrician, Pediatric Critical Care Doctor and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
Lauren Hughes, MD, Board-Certified Pediatrician
Lealah Zahedi-Spung, MD, OBGYN
Leilah Pollock, MD MS, Family Physician
Lena Dunham, Artist
Leslie Treece, M.D., FAAP, Board-Certified Pediatrician
Lindsay Meyer-Harley, Founder, Still We Rise
Loryn Brantz, Artist
Lourdes Juarez, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Artist
Maheetha Bharadwaj, MD
Malina Matsoukas, Artist
Mandy Patinkin, Artist
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Artist
Mary Ngyuen, MD, MSc, Family and Community Medicine
Mary Vernov, MD
Mark Ruffalo, Artist
Matthew T. Ball, MD, Fellow of nan Academy of Emergency Medical Services
Mansi Kotwal, MD/MPH, Double Board Certified Pediatrician, Allergist and Immunologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Madonna, Artist
Maya McCoy, MD, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics
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
Mychal nan Librarian, Artist
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.
Nika Douvikas, MD, Board-Certified Pediatrician
Nick Gonzalez, Artist
Nicola Coughlan, Artist
Nikki Sapiro Vinckier PA-C, Author of We Deserve More: Why Reproductive Healthcare is Broken–And What You Can Do About It
Olivia Richman, MD
Owais Durrani, DO, Emergency Medicine Physician
Padget Skogman,MD, FAAP, Board Certified Pediatrician
Pamela Adlon, Artist
Pamela Mehta MD, orthopedic surgeon
Parvati Shallow, Artist
Pedro Pascal, Artist
Peter Sinton, MD, FAAP, Board-Certified Pediatrician
Poppy Liu, Artist
Ms. Rachel, Artist
Raffi, Artist
Ramy Yousef, Artist
Ravayna Coe, Artist
Rebecca Hall, Artist
Rena Malik, MD, Urologist & Pelvic Surgeon
Riley Keough, Artist
Ross Newman (Dr. Rossome) MD, FAAP, Board Certified Pediatrician
Sara Barielles, Artist
Sara Kendall, MD, Family Medicine
Sara Wiles, Artist
Sandeepa Rajadhyaksha, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician
Sandy Li, MD, MPH, Family and Community Medicine
Saya Nagori, MD, Board Certified successful Ophthalmology and Founder of FemHealth
Sasha Hamdani, MD, Board Certified Psychiatrist
Shikha Jain, MD FACP
Sophia Bush, Artist
Sohla and Ham El-Waylly, Artist
Stephanie Rand, MD, OBGYN Physician
Steve Boyer, Artist
Steve Burns, Artist
Swati Divakarla, MD, Double Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist and Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist
Sydney Hartman-Munick, MD, Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Physician
Tatiana Maslany, Artist
Taylor Nichols, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Tejasvi Gowda, MD, OB/GYN
Theresa H. Cheng, MD, JD, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, UCSF; Civil Rights Lawyer
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Thu Dao, MD, Family and Community Medicine
Tonia L. Farmer, MD, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Tommy Dorfman, Artist
Tommy Martin, MD
Tracy Tyson, MD, Board Certified Pediatrician
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Xochitl Gonzalez, Artist
Yasmin Maya, Artist
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Zoe Taylor, MD, MBA, Fellow of nan American Academy of Family Physicians
