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. It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t 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 who’s in jail. It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life," she told the news outlet. "We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee. I just never thought those words would go together."

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Ms Rachel could be Jesus honestly, I don't mean that as a religious fanatic, she just acts a lot like I would imagine Jesus acted based on how people always talk at me about him.

[–] Batmancer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I agree! I was talking with my coworkers about Israel suing Ms. Rachel for antisemitism for speaking against genocide.

I joked, I’m not at all religious but if someone told me Ms. Rachel was the second coming of Jesus, I’d say, yea that tracks.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 hours ago

That or Greta Thunberg if Jesus was leaning more on the "Take No Shit From Power" vibes.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 12 hours ago

If I was God and was considering sending an aspect of me down to Earth, I think I'd be inclined to send someone who didn't look like Jesus, to reveal who are genuinely followers of Christianity

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 day ago

I still don't know who Ms. Rachel is, but everything I hear about her sounds incredibly based.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 42 points 1 day ago

This is a awesome human.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How DARE she Believe that EVERY Child is Equal!

-Family Values Republicans who think they're Going to Heaven!

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Something tells me Jesus wouldn't really like putting kids in concentration camps

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago

It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love and care, and that every child is equal, and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border.

It's unfortunately only political because some people believe the opposite.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

MAGA: “Keep politics out of kids shows! Mr. Rogers was never political!”

Mr. Rogers:

Fred Rogers sharing a pool with a black man which was extremely controversial at the time

[–] No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People who "don't do politics" get fucked by politicians as they mess up every aspect of their daily living with their decisions. If you don't do politics, politics do you.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago

Can we start putting this on billboards please?

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It fucking shouldn’t be political to support kids - I hate this timeline