Popular children's educator Ms.Rachel visited Delaney Hall, an immigration detention facility in Newark, N.J., on Monday, to visit families she said had been "terrorized" by immigration enforcement.The YouTuber, whose real name is Rachel Griffin Accurso, shared a video of herself speaking with the daughter of a detained man in the facility, who emotionally recounted her visit with him.
Accurso wrote that the man had lived in the United States for 20 years and worked as a truck driver.She encouraged followers to donate to the family."Please let their kind, loving father be with his family again," she wrote in the post."How is ripping this family apart and taking him from his children, one with severe special needs, OK?" she asked.
"I spoke with many traumatized kids who are scared to sleep at night.Why are we terrorizing children?"Ms.
Rachel visited families connected to detainees at Delaney Hall, where she criticized family separations and called for greater support for affected children.(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)GOV MIKIE SHERRILL ACCUSES ICE OF DENYING HER ACCESS TO NEWARK DETENTION FACILITY DELANEY HALLShe also posted a video of herself singing alongside families and immigration activists to a song with the lyrics, "Together we'll sing down the walls everywhere...
together we'll sing until everyone's free."Accurso tagged the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice in the posts.A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson strongly pushed back on those claims in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying that critics of immigration enforcement have ignored children exploited by smugglers and sex traffickers who crossed the border under the Biden administration. The spokesperson also disputed claims of family separation, saying, "ICE does not separate families.Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place the children with a safe person the parent designates."The spokesperson also said that DHS "has led the efforts to r...