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Children's entertainer Rachel Griffin Accurso met families outside the Newark detention center on June 9 and brought letters from detained children to lawmakers the next day.
nationalpost.comRachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, spent June 9 at a volunteer hospitality tent outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey. She played with children, sang songs, and listened to accounts of separated families.
The following day she posted on Instagram about the visit and urged her roughly 5 million followers to support the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice. She also traveled to Washington and delivered more than 500 packets of handwritten letters and drawings to members of Congress from both parties.
The letters came from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas and from children waiting outside Delaney Hall.
“This is not a partisan issue,” Ms. Rachel stated. ” A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News Digital that ICE does not separate families. The spokesperson said parents are given the choice of removal with their children or placement of children with a designated safe person, and that DHS has led efforts to rescue and stop the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors.
On the same day as Ms. Rachel’s visit, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill received a tour of Delaney Hall. She described the tour as “closely controlled and limited” and said she was shown common areas but was not allowed to speak directly with detainees.
Sherrill stated that the restrictions were unacceptable.
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