Posted on 02/20/2019 10:28:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MIAMI - A delegation of House Democrats on Tuesday toured one of the largest facilities in the country housing unaccompanied migrant children - a visit one representative called “chilling.”
The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Migrant Children, about 25 miles southwest of Miami, is under scrutiny because it is the only one in the U.S. run by a for-profit corporation and, as a federal facility, it is not subject to state regulations.
Several Democratic lawmakers have called for shuttering facilities such as Homestead, citing the lack of oversight and the length of time that children are held.
The delegation included Reps. Joaquin Castro, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Sylvia Garcia, both of Texas, and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell and Donna Shalala, both of Florida.
“As a mother it was very difficult to watch. It has a prison-like feel,” Mucarsel-Powell said.
"What I did not see - and this is a message for the Trump administration - I did not see criminals, I did not see gang members. I saw kids who have hope that this country will welcome them," Mucarsel-Powell said.
Shalala called the system unacceptable and said it was why society got rid of orphanages years ago. She said the term “unaccompanied” is too narrow. “If you don’t come with a parent, but you come with an aunt, an uncle, a cousin, or a brother, you’re defined as unaccompanied.”
Castro, who has visited other facilities that hold migrant children and families and has been critical of some of them, said the Trump administration's policy of separation and extended detention of immigrant families and children "is all part of a morally bankrupt system.”
“The young boys and girls we visited in Homestead today are the very ones on which Donald Trump has made his political career,” Castro said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
"In 2016, CHS was awarded a contract by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), for rapid ramp-up of a large temporary shelter. Over a 6-week period, CHS recruited, vetted, hired, and on-boarded a professional team from the local community to provide medical care and daily living services for a 24/7 operation."
"In our current role with HHS/ORR, dedicated CHS team members are providing high quality medical services and humanitarian care to support the health and well-being of the immigrant children who are sent to the shelters."
https://www.chsmedical.com/services/government-services/medical-readiness-and-response/immigrant-shelter-services
SEND THEM BACK. SEND THEM ALL BACK TO THEIR HOME COUNTRIES.
No more illegals. Send them all back.
These kids should NEVER have been allowed in this country to begin with..the second they arrive here, turn them around and ship their asses back
One of the “political” points which must be made loudly and widely is that Demoncrap politicians care far more about illegal aliens than they do about their own real constituents.
Every dollar that goes to illegal aliens is a dollar taken from real Americans and/or a dollar denied to uses FOR real, legal Americans.
Black Americans, in particular, are disadvantaged by all focus upon illegal aliens. ALso, downward pressure on wages hurts most those LEGAL citizens who are less educated, less able to “write their own ticket” in the wage competition, i.e., many (not all) minority unemployed and job candidates etc.
Oh, the humanity.
The thought of those murderous gang members and child sex traffickers and pedophiles being detained for bringing phony “family” children strangers over the border illegally in order to get benefits and hands off policy-—it would be difficult to watch.
They sure seem to love coming to those places.
Wasn’t considered a problem when tge Obamunist did it.
Stalinists lie. Always
And they have no tears for 50,000,000 dead children in America
The minute Hispanics start voting republican, the democrats would put police dogs on the entire family including babies and turn them into the most evil lawbreakers in history. And I do not exaggerate.
‘difficult to watch...’??
Sort of like that sinking feeling I get looking at my shrinking paycheck
IIRC at least one private company providing this “service” paid bribes in order to facilitate that big wave of child trafficking from Obama’s time.
Send them all home as expeditiously as possible.
Something for them to pretend to care about until a Democrat is President.
Just like bombing the Middle East. All we heard about in 2006-2008, then Obama becomes President and Code Pink immediately goes AWOL.
Difficult to watch the Children or the RATS? For the children it’s somewhere between summer camp and Disneyland to be in the care and custody of the United States Government.
These are the same a-holes who mock and refuse to meet Angel Moms.
These Reps should be kicked out
of Congress. They’re exploiting
these (children) to score political
points, and are the ones who created
this mess in the first place. Trump
is adhering to federal immigration
laws, which these idiots have the
power to change what they see.
They’re also quite good a brainwashing
the masses. The following link is off
topic, scroll down and read the comments.
I had a terrible urge to jump into the
fray, but thought better of it.
The 1 photo shows only young men. Just like the muzzie invasion of the pEeU
I think this is just another good argument for the wall. If we had the wall these people wouldn’t becoming here using these children as their sacrificial lambs of entry.
Don’t forget that a 40 foot wall would appear on the border almost overnight ... with autonomous machine gun towers spaced about 500 feet apart.
Seriously, when Dems found out Cuban refugees typically didn’t care for Democratic policy, their pet hyenas in the media trashed them.
They are so full of crap. Sick of them.
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