"The Homestead facility is empty! Bring the immigrant children," read a tweet directed at the official accounts of President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris and sent by Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson.
As the number of migrants, and especially children, in U.S. custody has shot up in recent weeks, the feds have stood up new facilities at a Dallas convention center and a former oil workers' camp converted into an emergency housing facility for immigrant kids.
The apparent endorsement of a new version of the notorious facility in Homestead-from a prominent Democrat in power, no less-has advocates fearing the worst.
Thomas Kennedy, a Miami-based activist on immigration reform and other progressive issues, retweeted Wilson by linking to a video clip of Vice-President Harris condemning the site while on a campaign stop near the Homestead facility when she was still a Democratic presidential contender.
Last week, while touring an overcrowded Customs and Border Patrol facility in Texas, Republican senators blamed the Biden administration's immigration policies, such as stopping construction of Trump's wall, for a renewed influx of immigrants.
The way immigration advocates see it, the Biden administration has been sending mixed signals about whether the Homestead detention center, used as an overflow facility to house migrant children during both the Obama and Trump administrations, will again open its doors.
After an investigation of the facility in 2019, Amnesty International determined that the federal government was violating the human rights of thousands of unaccompanied children by detaining them there for indefinite periods of time.
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
A Democrat Invited Migrant Kids to a Notorious Florida Facility. It Did Not Go Over Well.
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