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Children’s Entertainer Ms. Rachel Advocates to Close Dilley Immigration Center
Ms. Rachel highlights poor conditions and medical issues faced by detained children at Dilley, where the population dropped from 500 to about 50 this week, advocates say.
- Last week, Ms. Rachel , the children's entertainer, told NBC News she is working with lawyers and immigration-rights activists to close the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas and return detained families to their communities.
- Parents and immigration lawyers have described children at Dilley losing weight after finding worms in their food and standing in line for hours for single doses of medicine, while detained children complained of limited education and lights that never turn off.
- Journalist Lidia Terrazas arranged video calls connecting Accurso with detained children including 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who had won his school spelling bee before detention, and Gael, a 5-year-old with developmental delays whose mother said he had not defecated in nine days.
- In its first year, the Trump administration placed more than 2,300 children into detention with their parents, with about 50 remaining at Dilley this week down from about 500 in January, The New York Times reported Friday.
- Accurso's educational videos for babies and toddlers have made her one of the nation's most recognizable children's entertainers, amplifying attention to Dilley. She said, "I'm kind of in shock right now about the level of cruelty.
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Popular child entertainer Ms. Rachel advocates for closing ICE detention center in Texas
Ms. Rachel is reportedly working with immigration rights advocates and lawyers “to close Dilley and make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong.”
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