A vigil of children's stories is happening right now outside the Dilley Detention Center.
"This is a vigil and a demand."
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A msg from @elenahung.bsky.social — who is outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of #ReadThemHome
The trauma children in detention carry doesn't disappear when the cell door opens. The anxiety, regression, loss of language — that damage is real and it is lasting.
END FAMILY DETENTION!
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photo of me holding a sign that says "Read Them Home, End Family Detention" with Dilley Detention Center behind me
A threat to any child is a threat to all children.
We need to end family detention everywhere, now.
#ReadThemHome
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#Disability justice is #immigration justice is disability justice is immigration justice.
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photo taken outside Dilley Detention Center, open field behind a fence with a "no trespassing" sign
I am in Dilley, Texas right to help draw attention to the fact that children are currently locked up and detained at the Dilley Detention Center. That’s right: CHILDREN. DETAINED.
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Go @elenahung.bsky.social
Go @littlelobbyists.com
Go #ReadThemHome
TAKE ACTION —> bit.ly/readthemhome
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A woman wearing a blue Little Lobbyists t-shirt reads aloud from a book in front of a branded step-and-repeat backdrop featuring the Little Lobbyists logo. A large teddy bear wearing a "Read Them Home" vest sits behind her. A sign reading "End Family Detention" is visible on a bookshelf to her left. A sign language interpreter appears in a small inset window in the upper right corner. Captions at the bottom read: "to the bakers. She bought a loaf of brown bed and five"
HAPPENING NOW: @elenahung.bsky.social reads children's books as part of the #ReadThemHome campaign.
Reading aloud offers a powerful contrast between the horrors of the Dilley #Immigration Detention Center and the beauty of letting kids be kids.
LEARN MORE: bit.ly/readthemhome
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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...
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Thank you for speaking up for these families
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Today, SEIU members are joined with our partners in Dilley, TX where children & families are being held indefinitely.
We’re launching the #ReadThemHome campaign—reading children’s books aloud for kids in Dilley and across the country who aren’t allowed to just be kids. Tune in: www.readthemhome.org
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Join us today via livestream from 8 AM to 8 PM. Our American Gateways team will be teaming up with SA Stands to read at 2:30 PM. 📖 Kids should be kids. Close Dilley now. Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action.
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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
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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 HANDS HOLDING BOOK
Kids should be kids. Close Dilley ❤️🩹
Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org 📖🏡
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![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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🚨 Call To Action-APRIL 2
📍Live Stream Online
🛑 Stop Detaining Children & Families
⏰ 12 Hour Vigil- 8 a.m. CDT
Join the protest using reading of children’s books as an act of care, resistance, & demand for change
📕 #ReadThemHome
Join the live stream on
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