
Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention
NBC News
Like many Americans, Ms. Rachel said she first became aware of the family detention center in Dilley, Texas, after federal immigration agents detained a 5-year-old in Minneapolis.
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.”













