Demanding “immediate closure” of the Dilley Immigration Processing Centre in Texas, Maren Morris, Madonna, Pedro Pascal. John Legend, Gracie Abrams, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Riley Keough, Diego Luna, Cynthia Nixon, Keke Palmer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Stiller and Ramy Youssef are among the celebrities who’ve signed an open letter.
In response to hundreds of young children, teenagers, and their parents who’ve been held at the remote facility and its dehumanizing conditions, a growing list of Hollywood stars, medics, policy experts and other organizations, have execute the letter that read “No child should be locked in an immigration detention centre.”
Calling on the federal government and private prison operator CoreCivic to “return children and families to the homes and communities they were taken from and to end child imprisonment now,” the petition has 13,000+ signatures and is available on Change.org
“Children held in immigration detention endure trauma, neglect and conditions that violate basic standards of health, safety, dignity and human rights.” “Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,:” states the open letter.
IN 2014, the centre was opened by the Obama administration, then closed by the Biden administration in 2024. In the spring of 2025, Trump’s White House reopened the facility as part of a $45,000,000,000.00 immigration detention expansion, and the start of the second Trump administration, the number of children in ICE detention on a given day has jumped more than sixfold.
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Author: Al Denté
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