"I have been very vocal about the fact that I'm scared of what I'm seeing in this country. I've been living here for decades. This is not the place that I grew up in. We need to all stand up."
"The biggest lesson that I learned was that silence is our biggest enemy."
"People, families are being torn apart, children, hundreds of children are in detention and in horrible conditions. I have personal experience with people in my circle that their loved ones have been taken away and have been months in detention for no reason because they haven't been deported, they haven't done anything."
Gloria Estefan won the Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Album for Raíces with her husband Emilio and used the moment to urge Americans to stand up against extreme immigration enforcement. She expressed fear about recent events, citing two fatal shootings of US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis. Estefan recalled learning that silence is the biggest enemy and warned that current practices are tearing families apart. She reported hundreds of children detained in poor conditions, shared personal connections to detained individuals, and called for voting and the use of political and economic power.
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