Mark Ruffaloand Common released a heart-wrenching video on Friday featuringfamilies still separated at the border— depicting a visual tale of reported deception, despair, anger and extraordinary love.
Ruffalo is referring to the fact that the Trump administration failed to meet Thursday’s court-ordered deadline to reunite more than 2,000 families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border due to President Donald Trump’s since-reversed “zero tolerance” immigration policy. As of the 6 p.m. ET deadline on Thursday, more than 700 children remained separated from their families, according to CNN.
The rapper, actor and activist Common adds in the video, “Families are still being kept apart, and children are being kept in cages. We need to help these families.”
The tape then cuts to footage of a woman cradling her child at the Texas-Mexico border in June 2018, and Andra Day’s “Rise Up” begins playing as the voice of migrant mother is heard crying in Spanish, “I need help” and “The only thing I want is for someone to bring me my son.”
John Moore/Getty Images
As the Trump administration hasfailed to meet the court orderrequiring the reunification of all separated families, Ruffalo and Common are spotlighting voices of those directly involved with the crisis at the border: Dilma, a mother crying for her eight-year-old son; a passionate advocate fighting for Dilma; volunteers packing backpacks “with love” for the mothers and the children leaving detention centers; and more.
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic; Christopher Polk/Getty
Those featured in the video describe children being taken away from their parents at the border under the pretext of being given a bath or food. Some of those children have yet to be reunited with their parents.
Before Dilma is eventually reunited with her son in the video, she is shown crying and saying in Spanish, “It has been too many days, too many days. Every day it becomes more difficult, more painful. The fact that I can’t be with my son. The fact that I can’t hug him.”
“We will not rest until all the separated children are out of cages and back in their parents’ arms,” Common says in the video.
source: people.com
