Ms. Rachel Visits Delaney Hall, Sings with Families: 'Why Are We Traumatizing Kids?'
The visit came as detainees launched a hunger and labor strike and the state alleged The GEO Group blocked inspectors from medical and sleeping areas.
- On Monday, children's entertainer Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, visited families outside Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, to protest family separation policies.
- New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport sued The GEO Group on June 2 after inspectors were blocked from medical units and sleeping areas, while detainees launched a hunger strike in late May protesting conditions.
- On Instagram, Accurso highlighted a 13-year-old girl whose father, a truck driver living in the U.S. for 20 years, was detained at Delaney Hall and will miss her graduation.
- The Department of Homeland Security disputed family separation claims, telling Fox News Digital that ICE does not separate families, while Accurso traveled to Washington on Wednesday to deliver letters from detainees' children to Congress.
- Accurso dismissed criticism about her activism, stating, "It's political to believe that children are worthy of love," as protests at the 1,000-bed facility intensify attention on immigration detention policies.
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Children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel is responding to critics questioning why she is weighing in on political issues. “Hi! I have two master’s degrees in education & 20 years experience working with children. I’m also a mom & was a public school teacher,” Ms. Rachel, 43, (born Rachel Griffin Accurso) wrote via Instagram on Thursday, June 11. “Research shows that trauma can profoundly affect brain development & well-being & I’ve seen those effects …
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PressNewsAgencyChildren’s entertainer Ms. Rachel visits Delaney Hall families, urges Congress to end detention
Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel visited families connected to detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on Monday, calling on the federal government to end what she described as the traumatization of children by immigration enforcement. "This is not a partisan issue," she said. "We will all look back on this time and remember if we stood with children being abused in detention centers or with corporation…
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For millions of families, Ms. Rachel is not a political figure. She’s the smiling, over-enunciating, overall-wearing educator who sings “Hop Little Bunnies,” teaches first words, models baby sign language, and gives toddlers the feeling that someone on the other side of the screen is speaking directly to them. That brand has been enormously powerful. Rachel Griffin Accurso, known professionally as Ms. Rachel, built her following by presenting he…
Trump Administration Responds To Ms. Rachel’s Politicized Visit To ICE Facility
Kids YouTuber Ms. Rachel is no stranger to controversy, having been tied to some alarming rhetoric many have described as antisemitic. But her leftist slant doesn’t stop with the Middle East. As Breitbart reported, she recently paid a visit to Delaney Park, the ICE facility in New Jersey where open-borders protesters have been demonstrating and rioting for weeks: “I’m still processing being outside Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center in N…
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