LOS ANGELES, CA — If Ivanka Trump turns to Instagram for a respite from the rough-and-tumble world of politics, she’s in for a big disappointment: Celebrities she follows on the platform — including Amy Schumer, Sophie Amoruso, model Alexa Chung, filmmaker Paola Mendoza and others — banded together this week to send her pointed messages on the Trump administration’s family separations policy.
The first daughter recently made headlines when she said the separation of thousands of families at the border represented “a low point” for her. Many praised her for speaking out against her father’s unpopular policy of taking thousands of children from their immigrant parents for separate detention.
But her Instagram idols were less than impressed by her retroactive stance.
“Dear Ivanka,” they wrote. “You follow me on social media. You said family separation was a ‘low point’ for you. The low point is for the separated families. You spoke in past tense. This crisis is ongoing. As of now, 57 children have not been reunited. A child has died after separation. Approximately 400 parents have been deported without their children. There have been multiple claims of sexual and physical abuse in detention. There have been psychotropic drugs administered to children in detention without parental consent. These abuses have occurred on your father’s watch and under the leaderships of Secretary Nielsen. End these racist, inhuman and unconscionable abuses now! We demand you call for the resignation of Secretary Nielsen.”
Mendoza, a Colombian filmmaker best known for directing short films, spearheaded the campaign and issued a challenge to Ivanka Trump to follow her condemnation of the policy with action. “Ivanka claims to have been pained by this tragedy. If so, she should call for the resignation of Secretary Nielsen, otherwise her words are as false as her father’s,” Mendoza told Bustle. “The separation of families is a tragedy that Ivanka participated in and we will not stop shining the light of truth on her no matter how much she wants to hide from it.”
The younger Trump has thanked her father for ceasing his practice of separating children from their parents at the border.
“I felt very strongly about that, and I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children so I would agree with that sentiment,” she said at Axios News Shaper conference. “Immigration is incredibly complex as a topic. Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated.”
Ivanka Trump, White House adviser and daughter of President Donald Trump, speaks during an Axios360 News Shapers event Aug. 2, 2018 at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Axios staged the event to discuss workforce development and ‘news of the day.’ (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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