r/dilleydetentioncenter

Families detained at our nation’s concentration camp for kids are struggling to meet basic survival needs. The water is contaminated, the kids are getting sick, and they’re not able to get proper medical care. Moms can buy bottled water at commissary – for $30 a case. 💵🚼 The folks at Each Step Home are holding a Mother’s Day fundraiser to fill commissary accounts of the Dilley moms so they can access clean water, food their kids will actually eat, medicine, toiletries, and phone calls to lawyers and loved ones. Let’s do our part and chip in here. 💵🚼

FILL THE COMMISSARY FOR DILLEY MOMS

For those of us not in a position to donate, the folks at Children’s Rights have a simpler action – collecting cards to share with those locked up so they know the world has not forgotten them. They’re aiming to gather at least 1,200 by Sunday. ✍️ We can send or upload a letter, card, poem, lyric we love, a drawing, or just some kind words here and the Children’s Rights attorneys will make sure our words reach the moms inside. ✍️

MESSAGES FOR DILLEY MOMS

The 10 Steps Campaign, the SEIU, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the NEA, AFT and more have launched a new campaign to put the spotlight back on the children of Dilley called #ReadThemHome. They’re asking us to record ourselves reading a children’s book and post it online with the hashtag, utilizing this easy-to-use tool. It’s a different kind of communication, an attempt to break through the noise. 📖 Let’s join up and help #ReadThemHome – more info here, tool here. 📖

🧸 This campaign will build towards a coordinated wave of action on May 20th, when folks across the country will drop stuffed animals off at state capitols and local congressional offices. Get tips on how to organize these events here. 🧸

Right now, the Trump administration is leaning hard on sheriffs across the country to become force multipliers for ICE – renting out jail beds to hold detained immigrants, following 48-hour “detainer” requests that have no basis in civil law, and signing 287(g) agreements that turn local deputies into de facto immigration agents. Most sheriffs are going along with it. But they don’t have to.

Many sheriffs are elected officials, and as such they respond to constituent pressure just like other elected officials – except with fewer constituents, it takes fewer of us to have influence.

Folks at the Workers Circle are encouraging us to build up the pressure on our sheriffs not to cooperate with ICE. They’re holding a call at 7PM ET TONIGHT to talk about how best to successfully move these folks, with updates from community leaders who’ve succeeded in doing so and a new organizer toolkit – including strategies for escalation with unresponsive electeds - we can check out here. Let’s sign up to join them!

https://heldtruthsproject.org

More details on Olivia’s story. She was studying to become a nurse before she was detained.

Also after reading this I have a question — Why did They released her family but not her?