Hundreds Demand Return of SAIC Professor
Plus: devastating drawings by children held in ICE detention facilities.
In Chicago, art therapy professor Savneet Talwar has been placed on leave after asking students to envision treatment plans for a pro-Palestinian protester. Hundreds from the School of the Art Institute community have penned a petition demanding her return. However, one group remains severely overlooked in their fight for rights: children held in ICE detention facilities.
Drawings made by these traumatized children have been released to the public, providing a poignant glimpse into their emotional distress. The letters, seized in February from children at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, range from "AYUDA POR FAVOR" ("HELP PLEASE" in Spanish) to a nine-year-old writing, "I am nine years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals."
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently released scans of nine such pages to podcast host Allison Gill following a lawsuit filed in March. Gill shared images of these nine pages on her Substack on August 3, coinciding with ICE's fulfillment of her request. The release of these personal and distressing messages from the children, held in detention centers, highlights the urgent need for their rights and well-being to be prioritized.
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