The boy in the grainy video feed sounded desperate.
“I don’t want to be here anymore,” he said. “Nothing is good here.”
Since early March, 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez had been held with his parents at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas, where children have complained of limited education, lights that never turn off and moldy food. Now he was on a video call with someone who said she wanted to help: Ms. Rachel.
Wearing her signature pink headband, the popular children’s entertainer leaned toward the screen, trying to comfort the boy.
“Oh, I’m so sorry,” she said in a warm, high-pitched voice familiar to millions of children and parents. “A lot of people want to try to help.”
Deiver told her he missed his friends and that the food at Dilley made his stomach hurt. But that wasn’t what worried him most. Before he was detained, he had won his school spelling
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