Meet the celebrities who stand with working people in calling to #EndFamilyDetention in Dilley, Texas and across the country. Children belong at home with their families, in schools, and on playgrounds—not in detention centers. #ReadThemHome www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
Steve Daines, why is Congress taking away Americans’ healthcare while superfunding ICE to terrorize communities, separate families, & lock up parents & kids in jails without clean water, medical care, or school? Stop the cruelty. End family detention! #FreeFamilies #MTPol #ICEOut #EndFamilyDetention
Steve Daines, parents & kids in ICE detention are denied access to due process, clean water, medical care, school, & even crayons. It’s long past time to stop the cruelty, neglect, & abuse. End family detention now! #FreeFamilies #MTPol #ICEOut #EndICECamps #EndFamilyDetention
Thank you for speaking up for these families
#endfamilydetention
#readthemhome
I’m outside the Dilley detention center today reading my book out loud to help #EndFamilyDetention ❤️🩹 Do your part. Read aloud. Share your video. Tag #ReadThemHome. Help us bring these kids home. @domesticworkers.bsky.social @fwd.us @neatoday.bsky.social @seiu.org
good for you! be careful out there, my friend.
#ShutDownDilly #EndFamilyDetention
![The situation in Dilley, Texas should shock and horrify all of us and demand an urgent response from all of us. The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas — a sprawling complex of trailers and dormitories 72 miles south of San Antonio, run by the private prison firm CoreCivic — has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign. After President Biden closed it in 2021, Donald Trump reopened the facility quickly upon returning to office, and it has since become the primary holding site for immigrant families detained across the country. [Source: The Children of Dilley," ProPublica, by Mica Rosenberg, February 9, 2026. Read the original article]
What makes the current wave of ICE detentions new and unique is who is being held. The current population is largely made up of families who had been living in American communities for years — some for over a decade. They were detained at routine ICE check-in appointments, at bus stops, outside hospitals, and at airports. Many had active asylum cases, U.S. citizen spouses, or had been granted humanitarian parole. The vast majority of the adults had no criminal record in the United States.
Children and parents have described awful conditions inside the Dilley detention center: food with worms and mold; hard metal bunks shared by a dozen or more people; extreme medical neglect of children, including toddlers; and pervasive boredom and mental health crises.
Since reopening, roughly 3,500 people have cycled through Dilley — more than the entire population of the town itself. More than half are minors. A ProPublica data analysis found that about 300 children were held there for more than a month, in violation of the law.
Our neighbors being held inside the South Texas Family Residential Center need our voices. Join us in building public awareness of these grave conditions. We will #ReadThemHome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yw3pwrmndigjcaiut233fres/bafkreid6yattfjw3iqjeq4lfhd6qc2ta7tmowu5dn3ivjuram4oofqbcay)
The situation in Dilley, Texas should shock and horrify all of us and demand an urgent response from all of us. The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas — a sprawling complex of trailers and dormitories 72 miles south of San Antonio, run by the private prison firm CoreCivic — has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign. After President Biden closed it in 2021, Donald Trump reopened the facility quickly upon returning to office, and it has since become the primary holding site for immigrant families detained across the country. [Source: The Children of Dilley," ProPublica, by Mica Rosenberg, February 9, 2026. Read the original article] What makes the current wave of ICE detentions new and unique is who is being held. The current population is largely made up of families who had been living in American communities for years — some for over a decade. They were detained at routine ICE check-in appointments, at bus stops, outside hospitals, and at airports. Many had active asylum cases, U.S. citizen spouses, or had been granted humanitarian parole. The vast majority of the adults had no criminal record in the United States. Children and parents have described awful conditions inside the Dilley detention center: food with worms and mold; hard metal bunks shared by a dozen or more people; extreme medical neglect of children, including toddlers; and pervasive boredom and mental health crises. Since reopening, roughly 3,500 people have cycled through Dilley — more than the entire population of the town itself. More than half are minors. A ProPublica data analysis found that about 300 children were held there for more than a month, in violation of the law. Our neighbors being held inside the South Texas Family Residential Center need our voices. Join us in building public awareness of these grave conditions. We will #ReadThemHome.
You might not be there in person, but you can help. Kids should be kids. Close Dilley now. Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: record yourself reading a book aloud, share your video, and take action.
LINK to media toolkit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#ReadThemHome #EndFamilyDetention
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Tune in. National Vigil to End Family Detention. Dilley, Texas. Watch the livestream. Read them home. End family detention. www.readthemhome.org
Tomorrow (April 2nd, International Children's Book Day), I will be in Dilley, Texas, outside the South Texas Family Residential Center, where children and families are being held indefinitely. At 5 pm, I will be reading from my books as part of a poignant vigil. #ReadThemHome #EndFamilyDetention
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Thank you @repsarajacobs for standing with immigrant families and fighting against family separation. Our families deserve dignity, not detention.
#FamiliesBelongTogether #EndFamilyDetention
Conditions at the Dilley Family Detention Center are abhorrent: parents and children face neglect and outright cruelty. Over a decade of research and experience show that family detention is inherently inhumane. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to jail children and families. #EndFamilyDetention
The US government already spends $160 million/year to operate the Dilley detention center. Now billions more have been proposed to expand detention nationwide. Congress must reject more funding to expand detention and #EndFamilyDetention.
Send a message:
immigrantjustice.org/StopICE
Excerpts from a letter written by Susej, 9 years old, who was detained at Dilley Family Detention Center: "I miss my school and my friends. I feel bad since when I came here to this place, because I have been here too long."
As members of Congress & advocates demand families be released from Dilley, here's a 🧵on the history of family detention, what’s happening, why it’s awful, and what we should be doing differently. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Children do not belong in immigration detention. They belong with their families and free.
Congress must move toward ending family detention. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether @fams2gether.bsky.social
Our tax dollars should never be used to jail children or rip families apart. Congress must reject funding that expands family detention and move toward ending it altogether. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Check out the instagram.com/fams2gether livestream at 4pm EST today.
Children don’t belong in immigration detention. They deserve freedom and to be with their families.
At the Dilley facility in Texas, 1,000+ people, including infants, are held with limited protection.
Congress must reject funding to expand detention. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Inside the Dilley facility in Texas, more than 1,000 people, including infants, are being held with fewer legal protections and oversight. Detention harms children’s mental health and development.
Congress must move toward ending family detention. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Children in immigration detention face higher rates of PTSD, depression, and lifelong mental health harm. We can and must do better.
Congress must move toward ending family detention. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
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The Kids Aren’t Alright in Dilley
#CloseDilley
#EndFamilyDetention
“forget about the twenty-day detention limit for minors and little ones. The former employee said they know a mother who has been there 130 days. That woman’s 11-year-old daughter has been with her the whole time, and her depression has gotten bad enough that she won’t eat
#EndFamilyDetention
Nine-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra, from Colombia, drew a portrait of herself and her mother wearing their detainee ID badges. A note on the side said, “I am not happy, please get me out of here.”
#EndFamilyDetention
The science is clear: no amount of detention is safe for children, especially babies whose rapidly developing brains rewire under chronic unrelenting stress. Some experience physical, even life-threatening harm as well. This is intentional torment that must be shut down. #EndFamilyDetention
horrible place” with putridwater and meals with dirt and bugs, and say guards treat families like criminals. Can't imagine the trauma Liam's already experienced. This must stop. #FreeLiam #HumanRights #EndFamilyDetention #PoliSky #NewsSky
picture of blue and peach sky with razor wire and chain link fence in lower left corner and crayons in a variety of colors in lower right corner. In white letters the words: Families in ICE detention lack clean water and medical care. ICE often even denies kids access to crayons. In Yellow text: TELL CONGRESS: In purple text: #FreeFamilies now! END FAMILY DETENTION in white text in purple box at bottom of flier: NATIONAL COALITION TO END FAMILY & CHILD DETENTION
When locking people up is a business, we have no business locking people up. #FreeFamilies #AbolishICE #EndFamilyDetention #NoKidsInDetention #EndDetention
ICE vigil, Burlington, VT. This woman saw this country go to war against nations that our government is currently modeling.(*ahem* Nazis *cough*)
And yes, I have permission to post this.
#OccupyICE, #AbolishICE, #CloseTheCamps, #EndFamilyDetention, #ProtectImmigrants, #HumanRights
Ah yes, America: where ‘border security’ means traumatizing families with alligator cosplay. Psychological warfare as policy — 🧡 #ORANGEDOOSH™ #NoKingsInAmerica
#EndFamilyDetention
#AbolishTheElectoralCollege
#LunaticFringe
Sarah Shaw, a New Zealander lawfully in WA, & her 6-yr-old son were jailed by ICE for 3+ weeks over an expired travel permit. Valid work papers, no crime—just a paperwork slip. Families don’t belong in cages.
#Immigration #HumanRights #EndFamilyDetention
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Border Patrol tried to disappear four U.S. citizen kids.
Yes. Really. They were taken from a park. Given new passports. And nearly flown out of state.
We are way past “broken system.”
🔗 Read this now. https://loom.ly/k2yZSG4
#Oregonizers #EndFamilyDetention #ThisIsAmerica
They’re already joking about feeding migrants to gators.
Not as metaphor. As policy.
This is how fascism laughs — with its teeth showing.
#NoMoreCamps
#EndFamilyDetention #RefugeesAreHuman #WeSeeYou #NeverAgainMeansNow #AlligatorAlcatraz
#NoMoreKings
A pregnant woman of Latin American descent stands facing an 8-foot chain-link fence topped with razor wire. One hand grips the fence; the other rests protectively on her belly. The setting is stark and sunlit. On the far side of the fence, shadowy hints of swamp vegetation suggest a detention center built in the Everglades. Her face is partially turned, unreadable, caught between fear and defiance.
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last…”
A woman. Pregnant. At the fence of a detention center.
And somewhere, someone laughs about the alligators.
You think this starts and ends with her?
#RightsAndReason #HumanDignity #EndFamilyDetention #ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights
