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R. E. Burke
@reburked.bsky.social
This is a support account for Rebecca Burke, a Welsh comics artist who been detained by ICE since February 26-March1 8. No one deserves imprisonment by ICE.

reburke.myportfolio.com

This account is run by @laurenhudgins.bsky.social until she recovers.
She just arrived home today! She is free.
March 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Not yet! She's pretty sick and needs to rest, but I'm sure we'll be hearing from her when she's a little better.
March 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'm going to wait a few days before I reach out to her. She must be exhausted.
March 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'm sure we'll hear more from Becky once she's had time to recover from her illness and trauma.
March 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Thank you, for Becky and for everyone else.
March 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
She is doing her best to maintain her mental health but she is depleted with illness. She has sketched 78 pages of comics while in detention and is considering a book to tell her story and the stories of other detainees. 5/5

#BringBeckyHome
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Becky now has the number for Northwest Immigrant Rights Group that she can give to other detainees and get them some help, too. She knows how lucky she is to have a local-ish support system.

When she's feeling well enough to goes out to shoot baskets with a daily goal of 10. 4/

#BringBeckyHome
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Well-meaning strangers are coming to visit her at the detention center and she really appreciates it but she is too exhausted and sick to want to see anyone she doesn't know. She isn't lonely because she is getting to know the women she is detained with. 3/

#BringBeckyHome
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
She had been wearing the same sweatshirt for two weeks and spend a frigid night without it to have it washed. She thinks that might have contributed to her getting sick on top of the stress of imprisonment. She has been tested once for COVID. Negative. 2/

#BringBeckyHome
March 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"I keep thinking about when I will be on that plane. I will be smiling the entire journey home." 2/2
March 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM