Ordinary people. Collective Power. Unbreakable Solidarity.
Links From Reels & Posts
-
Immigrant Doctors in the U.S. (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2025/11/19/nx-s1-5581542/new-policies-make-u-s-less-appealing-to-foreign-born-physicians
Foreign-Born Internal Medicine Doctors (2026 Study): https://www.epocrates.com/online/article/medicare-patients-lean-on-doctors-born-ex-us
Unaccompanied Children Fact Sheet (HHS): https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/unaccompanied-alien-children-program-fact-sheet-01-2020.pdf
Unaccompanied Children Testimony (U.S. Senate): https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Greenberg-2015-07-07.pdf
AP Drops "Illegal Immigrant" (Mediaite): https://www.mediaite.com/online/ap-drops-illegal-immigrant-from-stylebook-illegal-should-describe-only-an-action
Major Networks Drop "Illegal Immigrant" (Daily Beast): https://thedailybeast.com/ap-stylebook-drops-illegal-immigrant
Families Fleeing Gang Violence (UNHCR): https://www.unhcr.org/node/19172
Running for Their Lives (UNHCR): https://www.unhcr.org/node/20511
Hunger Drives Migration (Migration Policy Institute): https://www.migrationpolicy.org/press-release/mpi-wfp-mit-report-stemming-rising-migration-central-america-calls-tackling-immediate
Asylum in the U.S. (American Immigration Council): https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/asylum-united-states -
SOURCES
New holding facility in Alexandria, LA on old military base:
KTAR Radio
https://ktar.com/national-news/a-new-ice-facility-could-speed-up-deportations-for-families-and-kids/5886270/Amnesty International Urgent Action UA 100.26
https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UA-100.26-USA.pdfGroundwater PFAS at 575,000 times the federal drinking water limit
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/pfas-chemicals-ice-family-detentionMore than 20 years with a child welfare agency (ORR since 2003)
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, 20-Year Retrospective
https://refugees.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Chapter-1-The-Transfer-2.pdfPFAS and children's health
Maternal/Child Nursing journal (cites CDC's ATSDR and the National Academies)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40029199/TCE linked to cancer and liver damage
EPA scientists, Environmental Health Perspectives
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3621199/Ralph Hennessy's contact info and the three asks
Amnesty International Urgent Action UA 100.26
https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UA-100.26-USA.pdf -
ICE shooting,
Texas Tribune, Sept. 21: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/21/texas-austin-ice-shooting-victim-wilber-rafael-garces-perez/Medical care for Wilber,
Texas Tribune, Sept. 22: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/texas-austin-ice-shooting-medical-care/No body cams
Texas Tribune, Sept. 23: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/23/texas-austin-shooting-ice-officer-no-body-cam-reports/Partial paralysis
Washington Post, Sept. 22: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/09/22/man-shot-detained-by-ice-is-hospitalized-partial-paralysis-lawyer-says/ -
To read more about this bill, visit these two links. Then ask your senator to support it. 202-224-3121
https://www.bennet.senate.gov/2026/05/04/bennet-smith-cortez-masto-introduce-legislation-protecting-children-harmed-by-ice-actions-against-their-parents/https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/4389
-
Lawyer: dad begged ICE to release Liam to his mom (Scripps News)
https://www.scrippsnews.com/investigations/ice-inc/lawyer-claims-ice-ignored-pleas-to-release-5-year-old-to-his-mother
Deported to Mexico (Scripps News)
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/5-year-old-boy-detained-in-viral-texas-video-deported-to-mexico-with-father
Deportation, with both DHS and the lawyer's side (Houston Chronicle)
https://www.chron.com/news/article/dhs-james-talarico-liam-tadeo-texas-22408327.php
Deported Tuesday night, the "choice" (Austin American-Statesman)
https://www.statesman.com/news/politics/state/article/austin-father-5-year-old-son-deported-mexico-22406330.php
Mom in Austin, the "unaccompanied child" option (KUT Austin)
https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2026-08-24/ice-detained-liam-victor-dilley-austin-soccer-deported-kindergarten-austin-tx
Missed kindergarten, called his mom from detention (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-accused-of-detaining-5-year-old-on-way-to-soccer-game-in-texas-12350957Mom's phone call, CNN clip (Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/difficult-to-watch-cnn-shows-distressed-mother-speaking-to-5-year-old-son-detained-by-ice/Mom's phone call, original interview (N+ Univision)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s87dLoSH34Government's side (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-hits-back-james-talarico-democrat-claims-ice-kidnapped-5-year-old-boy-deported-father -
-
Read the extermination and rescission orders here
https://s1.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/findingaids/miscMormonRecords/eo
Full History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be found (for free) here.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/history/saints?lang=eng -
Protesting Clergy are arrested
https://www.wcax.com/2026/09/04/7-clergy-protesting-williston-ice-facility-arrested/
Clergy arrested after blocking center used by ICE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CROY3puGACo
7 Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center
https://www.ncronline.org/news/7-vermont-clergy-arrested-while-protesting-ice-targeting-center -
Kids at a Texas immigration facility have nightmares, little school and contaminated food
NBC News, February 2026.
Mike Hixenbough and Daniella Silva.
Life Inside ICE Detention for Children
ProPublica
Children in immigration detention at Dilley
Associated PressThe Harrowing Journey Home for Families Leaving Immigration Detention
The Marshall Project, March 2, 2026Measles at the Dilley facility
The Texas Tribune, February 2, 2026Donate to the Dilley Detention Center Emissary
Each Step Home -
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/05/cuban-hunger-striker-ice-force-feeding
Working on something similar?
If you're an organizer, storyteller, or group doing this work, we'd like to hear from you.