Ms. Rachel is fighting to close an ICE facility in Texas that's detaining children. She wants to "make sure that kids and their parents are back in their communities where they belong." "I am political. Itโs political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldnโt stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border," she told NBC News. Ms. Rachel recently had a video call with nine-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez, who is detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas. The boy told her he "wants to leave and go to the spelling bee." "It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody whoโs in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought Iโd encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "Weโre trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together." variety.com/2026/tv/news/mโฆ
