Immigration furor underscored in Florida
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida
Posted: 8:53 PM, June 19, 2018
Updated: 8:56 PM, June 19, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Amid escalating bipartisan demands for President Donald Trump to stop separating undocumented immigrant children from their families at the southern U.S. border, two high-ranking Florida Democrats were denied access Tuesday to a federal detention facility in Homestead housing an estimated 1,000 minors ...
Nelson on Tuesday captured national attention after he and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., were barred from entering a privately run federal detention facility in Homestead. Nelson said that, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 94 of the approximately 1,000 children housed in the facility were taken from their families at the border.
Nelson and Wasserman Schultz, accompanied by incoming state House Minority Leader Kionne McGhee, D-Miami, told reporters that the contractor running the facility approved their visit.
But Nelson said that, while en route to the detention center Tuesday morning, he was contacted by Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, who told him the facility was off-limits ...
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