--- title: Ivanka Trump Receives Celebrity Messages Urging Her on DREAM description: Ivanka Trump is etting messages from celebrities like Amy Schumer and Alexa Chung urging her to act on the family separation crisis. canonical: https://time.com/5359627/celebrities-ivanka-trump-instagram-feed/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-07T13:11:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T07:41:39.802Z og:title: Celebrities Are Trying to Get Ivanka Trump's Attention by Flooding Her Instagram Again og:description: They're banding together with one call to action og:url: https://time.com/5359627/celebrities-ivanka-trump-instagram-feed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d1e636def9a6971/6989372786f68e67256e9d3f/dearivanka.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Ivanka Trump Participates In Discussion On Workforce Development og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrities Are Trying to Get Ivanka Trump's Attention by Flooding Her Instagram Again twitter:description: They're banding together with one call to action twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d1e636def9a6971/6989372786f68e67256e9d3f/dearivanka.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Celebrities Are Trying to Get Ivanka Trump's Attention by Flooding Her Instagram Again > Sponsored content. 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Ivanka Trump Says Family Separation Was a Low Point_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 7, 2018 1:11 PM UTC Ivanka Trump Says Family Separation Was a Low Point by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 7, 2018 1:11 PM UTC Celebrities trying to get First Daughter [Ivanka Trump’s](http://time.com/5347458/ivanka-trump-clothing-line/) attention are targeting her Instagram feed again. In an effort to shift the 36-year-old senior White House adviser’s attention back to the issue of [family separation](http://time.com/5318229/donald-trump-border-separation-policy/) at the U.S.-Mexico border, stars who Trump follows – including Amy Schumer, Alexa Chung and Sophie Amoruso – have shared messages addressed to her on social media. “Dear Ivanka,” the identical posts begin in colorful text. “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.” President Donald Trump’s daughter has spoken out against her father’s immigration policies in the past, most recently at a Washington event hosted by [Axios](http://time.com/5356352/ivanka-trump-family-separation/) last week. “That was a low point for me as well,” Trump’s daughter said. “I felt very strongly about that. I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children, so I would agree with that sentiment. Immigration is incredibly complex as a topic. Illegal immigration is incredibly complicated.” > [](https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1009518490401812481) The effort is not without precedent. The same celebrities had took up a similar united front about [DACA](http://time.com/5036273/ivanka-trump-thanksgiving-daca-dream-act/) via Instagram posts during Thanksgiving in November 2017. See some of the posts below. ## Transcript [00:00] That was a low point for me as well. I feel [00:04] very strongly about that and I am [00:09] very vehemently against family separation [00:15] and the separation of parents and children, so I would [00:19] agree with that sentiment, I think. Immigration is [00:23] incredibly complex as a topic. 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