Artists Demand Dilley Detention Center Shutdown

0:00It's March 30, I'm Cory with the Story, and this is Music News Today, your AI-powered music briefing. Dozens of top artists like Madonna, Gracie Abrams, Kesha, and John Legend just signed a petition demanding the immediate shutdown of the Dilly. Immigration Processing Center, an ICE Family Detention Facility in Texas. They're calling for an end to locking up kids and families, plus real transparency, and big reforms to stop these issues nationwide. The Change.org letter already has thousands of signatures, with more names pouring in from folks like Brandy Carlisle, The Indigo Girls, and Actors, including Pedro Pascal, Jane Fonda, Ile Edibiri, and Elliott Page. No kid deserves to be caged in there, the artist say, facing straight up trauma, neglect, and conditions that trash basic health, safety, and human. Right standards. This spot holds most of ICE's detained parents and children right now. Reports show the Trump administration grabbed over 2,300 kids into custody this year in 2025 alone, and just.

1:05Recently, nearly 600 at Dilly lacked enough food, medical care, or mental health support. Artists keep pushing back hard against ICE, from Radiohead's blunt rebukes to Bruce Springsteen dropping protest tracks. It's clear the music world. Once real change before more families suffer.