An Immigrant Rights Group Recruited 10 Street Artists for a Viral Campaign About Child Detention—and They Hope to Bring It to DC Next

Signs on each sculpture explained the works and provided information about No Kids in Cages, a campaign from the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, known as RAICES. The artworks served as a “protest to the more than 3,000 children separated from their parents at the border,” RAICES wrote on Twitter. “This is not history. This is happening now. #NoKidsInCages is about the children. We cannot be a nation that separates families.”

The piece quickly went viral on social media, even as NYPD officers began arriving on the scene to impound the artworks, which were installed in front of major news organizations and media companies, such as CNN, NBC, and Buzzfeed, as well as popular tourist destinations such as the American Museum of Natural History and Union Square. The demonstration was a push to get Congress to pass HR541, the Keep Families Together Bill.

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