Celebs decry child internment camps
Natalie Portman Image: Invision/Jordan Strauss via AP
American celebrities have been voicing out their dismay over President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy that separates adult asylum-seekers from their children, and the incarceration of such youngsters in various internment facilities.
Actress Alyssa Milano, who shared an Instagram user’s drawing of a mother and her child, wrote, “Every new day brings a new heartache, a new outrage… Democracy takes our full participation because, at the end of the day, any baby crying out for [his or her] mother is a reflection of our [failures]… We have to work together to find a way out.”
Actress Natalie Portman also wrote on Instagram, a few weeks back: “Help raise awareness about the inhumane policies and injustices taking place against those seeking asylum in the US. Sixty children are sitting alone in an Arizona detention center…”
On Twitter, TV host Chrissy Teigen shared the cover of the New York Daily News that depicts a crying Honduran toddler near the US-Mexico border.
Back on Instagram, “Will and Grace” star Debra Messing shared the photo of a similarly worried child: “This little boy, who has been taken from his parents, has been assigned a number. #47 on his chest and arm. Like the Holocaust.”
“13 Reasons Why” star Dylan Minnette, meanwhile, posted on Instagram Stories, “Please… sign [the] @alcu_nationwide petition to stop the inhumane separation of children from their parents in immigration detention.”
The ACLU, or American Civil Liberties Union, has worked to defend rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.—OLIVER PULUMBARIT
