Kim Mukerjee, MD

Thank you @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for your tireless efforts to protect families harmed by family detention. Juan needs medical care, safe housing, access to nutrition and a nurturing environment. Detention and deportation without due process is cruel and wrong.

We must continue to speak out loudly until all children are released from the dangerous and cruel practice of family detention.

As pediatricians, we call for immediate release of these children- we know all too well the immediate and longterm harms of detention: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

“All children held in immigration detention should be immediately released, and these facilities should be permanently shuttered.”

As pediatricians, we are calling for immediate action to protect children from detention and aggressive immigration enforcement actions.

Our piece here:

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

“While Liam has returned home, this traumatic detention experience will forever remain a part of his memory. For the children who remain detained, ongoing, compounding trauma worsens by the day.”

Aggressive immigration enforcement is harming children. We must keep speaking up. See our piece below:

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

“While Liam has returned home, this traumatic detention experience will forever remain a part of his memory. For the children who remain detained, ongoing, compounding trauma worsens by the day.”

Aggressive immigration enforcement is harming children. We must keep speaking up. See our piece below:

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

As pediatricians, we’re speaking out on the harms of aggressive immigration enforcement and detention on children. Our kids deserve safety and protection.

See our piece in USA Today:

Thank you for your continued advocacy for these children, @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. As pediatricians, we also continue to call out the immediate and longterm harms of detention on kids. Children and families need to be released and these facilities need to be shut down.

Our piece out today:

We're pediatricians. We see how ICE is harming children. | Opinion Liam Ramos is one of more than 1,700 children to have been put in family detention centers since 2025. We call for these centers to close.

As pediatricians, we’re speaking out on the harms of aggressive immigration enforcement and detention on children. Our kids deserve safety and protection.

See our piece in USA Today:

While Liam has thankfully left detention, the trauma from his time there will stay with him for a lifetime. Detention is incredibly traumatic and dangerous for children. That it has been inflicted on him as a result of cruel policies is even harder to contend with. All children deserve safety.

The kids are not ok. Read their stories. Look at their drawings. Hear it in their own words. Detention is no place for a child. It is cruel and dangerous. These children and their families deserve safety, dignity and compassion. They should be released immediately.

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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Pediatricians agree. No amount of time in detention is safe for a child. We need to ensure that these children are released, safe, have access to medical and mental health care, and that no more children have to endure this cruel and dangerous practice.

Anyone with a heart and soul should agree that children and babies do not belong behind bars. Thousands of kids will carry a lifetime of trauma and PTSD, done in our name, funded by our tax dollars.

The Dilley detention center should be shut down immediately. Because of the close-quarter conditions at Dilley, lack of prompt medical response and capacity, and lack of expertise with diseases such as measles, Dilley is not equipped to combat any spread.

Pediatricians have long called out the harms of detention on children. We must continue to be loud and advocate for the end of these cruel practices. No child should ever be detained. Their health and well-being is gravely affected. Children deserve protection and compassion.

“Dear ICE agents - I hope you’re respectful to everyone and show kindness… we should treat all people the same, even if we don’t know them.”

If this doesn’t shatter your heart you don’t have one. 💔

Our kids are watching. 🇺🇸
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

This is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking things I have seen. These kids are hurting. Immigration enforcement has forever changed their childhood. We must protect children from policies that harm them, their families and the communities they live in. Children deserve safety and compassion.

25% of children in the US live with at least one immigrant parent. That’s 25% of our nation’s children living in fear of the impact of immigration enforcement on their families. We must do better for kids.

Thank you for your incredible work and advocacy to bring attention to the harms of child detention, @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. It’s a huge relief that Liam will be released. Let’s keep going to get all kids out and shut down family detention all together. It is far too dangerous for kids.

No child should ever been detained. We have clear policy on this in pediatrics because we know the acute and longterm harms.

Immigration enforcement should never come at the cost of the health, safety or dignity of children.

Liam needs urgent medical care. No child should ever be detained. He is manifesting many signs of physical and emotional distress. Pediatricians have long been clear: no amount of detention is ever safe for a child. End family detention now.

Liam needs urgent access to medical care. No child should be detained. Pediatricians and child advocates have been sounding the alarm for years: detention is dangerous and puts the lives and health of kids at risk.

Thank you for this critical oversight, Congresswoman @crockett.house.gov. Pediatricians and other child health advocates stand with you and your colleagues to end this inhumane treatment of children. No amount of time is safe for children in detention. None. This must end now.

No amount of time is safe for children in detention. Pediatricians and child advocates know the harms and fear deeply for Liam and all children being detained. Thank you Rep @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for this critical oversight. Family detention must end.

This is a must-watch from @maddow.bsky.social. Pediatricians have been sounding the alarm for years- there is no amount of time in detention that is safe for a child. Absolutely none. The short and longterm impacts to their health and mental health are innumerable. Family detention must end. NOW.

Yes, this. The narrative is starting to shift. People are seeing the harrowing impacts of these actions on kids. On peaceful protestors whose goodness resonates and shines brightly in the darkness. One of the most powerful forms of resistance we have is to steadfastly preserve our shared humanity.

This is a must-watch from @maddow.bsky.social. Pediatricians have been sounding the alarm for years- there is no amount of time in detention that is safe for a child. Absolutely none. The short and longterm impacts to their health and mental health are innumerable. Family detention must end. NOW.