Candidates’ Homestead Visits Will Highlight Plight of Detained Migrant Children

Expand Dormitory beds for migrant children at the Homestead "temporary influx facility" outside of Miami. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While Democratic presidential candidates gather in Florida for the first set of primary debates, several of them are taking the time to visit the immigration detention center for children in Homestead, Florida. Their visits follow the news last week that migrant children are facing neglect and danger in a US Border Patrol facility just outside El Paso. That story broke when a group of doctors and lawyers – two of my Human Rights Watch colleagues…

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