A message from Attorney James Dickinson, originally shared with friends on his private Facebook page:

“In the LA detention center, a 2-year-old boy cried out to his father on Friday, both having been detained by ICE. My heart aches.

My heart aches for these precious people, yes, of course. [Let them go, leave them alone.]

If I’m honest, my heart also aches because I know that there is more that I could have done as a lawyer, as a citizen, as a human, to have prevented such a horrible thing from ever occurring in my Country, my State.

I am responsible for what is happening in my Country now. I am to blame.

I went to an event yesterday morning in Redlands, connecting with persons who are involved in justice work, and everyone, mostly middle-class white people, acted like everything is fine.

But…things are not fine.

I’m tired of asking fellows Christians, including pastors and religious leaders, to start caring. I’m tired of church and the performance.

We need to see people in the streets. We need to measure success by the risks we take for those we pretend to care about.

We need to throw our all into this work. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

I’m asking those who’ll do nothing and sit by to unfriend me now, for I’m going to seek to [continue to] provoke you to action.

I will not, by what power is in me or graced to me, allow another young child to cry for his father or mother, not in my Country and not in my name.

I pray that your heart aches, and that your soul has no rest until you finally do something.”