Ms. Rachel goes to Washington, carrying letters from children in ICE custody

“I can’t say, ‘I’m just one person, so I’m not going to make a difference.’ What if everyone said that?” A lot of adults could learn something from Ms. Rachel. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

“We will not see policy change until the public demands it. And that is what gives me hope when people like Ms. Rachel turn their spotlight onto a cause like this.”

“I’ll never stop trying, for them. I can’t say, ‘I’m just one person, so I’m not going to make a difference.’ What if everyone said that?"

Ms. Rachel taking letters from children detained at the Dilley immigrant detention center in south Texas -- some of them first published by @propublica.org -- to lawmakers www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Children’s media star Ms. Rachel visits Capitol Hill to deliver hundreds of letters from children held in ICE detention centers. She urges lawmakers to end family detention as the House passes a $70 billion enforcement funding package.

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Ms. Rachel goes to Washington, carrying letters from children in ICE custody Her goal was to urge every official she spoke with-Democrats and Republicans alike-to end family detention and reunite children and parents who had been separated by ICE enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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"Rachel Griffin Accurso" — #Ms.Rachel, to her millions of followers — made her first visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon, wearing a bubblegum-pink linen suit and wheeling a black suitcase filled with stapled packets of handwritten letters and drawings. They were the words.. By Caitlin Gibson

There are plenty of people on the wrong side history these days. Ms. Rachel is not one of them.

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