Show of stellar support for asylum-seeker’s story
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal recently posted a video, “I Am Mirian,” based on the affidavit of a woman from Honduras who fled the violence of her country with her 18-month-old son, only to be arrested and separated at the United States border in February.
The actress and the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu) teamed up to call attention to the separations. Dozens of Hollywood celebrities helped by reading lines from the heart-wrenching account of the Honduran woman.
Gyllenhaal was joined by husband, Peter Sarsgaard, and her brother, Jake. Other actors who appeared in the four-minute video include Chadwick Boseman, Glenn Close, Oscar Isaac, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Thandie Newton, Mira Sorvino, Amy Schumer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Thompson, Ilana Glazer, Ryan Reynolds, Aubrey Plaza and Riz Ahmed.
Ryan Reynolds
Some of them shared the video, and encouraged fans to donate to the Aclu.
Mirian and her son were reunited last May. After protests decrying the policy separating parents from their children at the US border and the detention of those offspring in internment camps, President Donald Trump signed the order to keep migrant families together in June.
“Thousands of children are still struggling to be reunited with their parents,” tweeted Gyllenhaal.—OLIVER PULUMBARIT
Oscar Isaac
