Send a Letter to Your Representative and Senators Demanding They Shut Down Dilley Detention Center Now

Mom started organizing because the children inside Dilley are screaming to be let free—and we are answering their cries. Moms across the country are standing up to demand that no child be forced to endure fear, neglect, and abuse behind detention center walls.

Today, families inside detention centers are reporting rotten food, unsafe water, lack of medical care, and serious physical and psychological harm. Children and parents are being separated, and people are being detained for months without timely due process.

people inside detention centers from Dilley to Delaney Hall to Adelanto are risking their health through hunger and labor strikes to expose abusive conditions and demand freedom for their families.

These are real stories:

• Ariana, 14, detained in Dilley: “All I feel is sadness and mostly depression.”

• Mia, 7: “I don’t want to be in this place. I want to go to my school.”

• Striker in Delany Hall: "The conditions in this prison are not fit for human beings over such a. long period of time: medical neglect, water unfit for consumption, food that is past its expiration date and in poor condition, bathrooms that are unusable, and ventilation systems that have never been maintained and because of this we are constantly sick."
  

• Striker in Adelanto: "This is the United States of America the land of the free and the home of the brave with liberty injustice or all examples of what they’re going through the food fitting to serve to an animal."

Children are forced to live in unsanitary conditions, with inadequate food, medical care, and emotional support. Pregnant women are being detained without proper oversight. Some areas of the center are off-limits to Congress—meaning what happens there remains hidden.

Moms started organizing to shut down Dilley because children belong with their families.

But Dilley isn't the whole story. That same detention system has already separated at least 145,000 children from a parent. Now, parents inside detention centers from Dilley to Delaney Hall to Adelanto are on hunger and labor strikes, risking everything to fight for their families.

As moms, we know compassion doesn’t stop at our own children. It extends to every child. That’s why we’re asking you to act now:

Sign the petition demanding that the House of Representatives and the Senate meet the strikers' demands, shut down Dilley and all detention camps, and release our kids and families now.

Every signature sends a clear message: every child deserves safety, freedom, and a home — not cages.