We Stand United released a new video Friday featuring Mark Ruffalo and Common about the ongoing humanitarian crisis of family separation at the border.
As of Thursday, the Trump administration stated that 1,800 children 5 years and older had been reunited with parents or sponsors hours before the July 26 deadline. However, officials say about 700 more remain separated, including 431 whose parents were deported.
The short video features distraught parents and children at the U.S. border, humanitarian workers describing the conditions they are facing, and also includes emotional footage of a mother being reunited with her child.
Ruffalo says in the video, “We are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis here on U.S. soil. The Trump Administration has failed to comply with the court order to reunify all the families that have been separated at the U.S. border.” Later in the video, Common states that, “Families are still being kept apart, and children are being kept in cages.”
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Andra Day’s Grammy-nominated song “Rise Up,” which she offered in support of the video, is also featured in the clip.
“We made this video to show the human cost of the Trump Administration’s despicably inhumane immigration policies,” Rebecca Chaiklin and Bruce Cohen of We Stand United, said in a statement. “The Trump Administration must immediately comply with the court order to reunify every single family they separated.”
The video concludes by asking viewers to donate to Families Belong Together (at ReunifyFamilies.org) to help reunite families, including transportation costs.
Says Common, “We will not rest until all the separated children are out of cages and back in their parents’ arms.”
