Rachel Accurso, best known as Ms. Rachel on YouTube, is using her voice to advocate for the closure of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, which is holding children and their parents.
Accurso was first made aware of the ICE facility after agents detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father in Minneapolis.
The popular children’s entertainer recently had a video call with Deiver Henao Jiménez, a 9-year-old who was detained in early March along with his parents. The boy told Ms. Rachel that the food at the facility made his stomach hurt and that he wanted “to leave and go to the spelling bee.”
“It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail,” Ms. Rachel told NBC News. “It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter
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