End ICE Detention of Children

I call on you to shut down the ICE family detention center in Dilley, Texas and to end ICE detention of children and families. Children are not criminals. They are not security threats. There are humane alternatives to detention. No child belongs in a detention cell, but especially not a detention center with reported undrinkable water, inedible food, and insufficient access to medical care. The AP reported that children are losing weight. Do you know how much neglect has to take place for a CHILD to lose weight? I just can’t stop thinking about 5-year-old Liam Ramos in the blue bunny hat and how sick he looked when detained there, about two-month-old Juan Nicolas who almost died in Dilley over President’s Day weekend, about 7-year-old Diana who was taken by ICE on her way to the emergency room, and many more. The American Academy of Pediatrics has called for the shuttering of these facilities, and you should too.