Trump administration won't share evacuation plan for migrant child detention center, Rep. says

[babylonsister]

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Trump administration won’t share evacuation plan for migrant child detention center, Rep. says
Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell pressed the Trump administration on its emergency preparedness at Miami’s Homestead Facility
Posted Jun 20, 2019 11:11 AM


Several weeks into hurricane season, a South Florida congresswoman is pressing the Trump administration to provide its emergency evacuation plan for migrant children detained in vulnerable coastal areas.

At the Homestead Facility, the nation’s largest camp for unaccompanied migrant children, children are sheltered in tents, metal trailers and a former U.S. Job Corps building. It is located south of the city of Miami, and is situated in the second-most vulnerable hurricane zone in South Florida, the Miami Herald reported.

When Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell asked federal officials to outline their emergency evacuation plan for the camp, the congresswoman received a brief, boilerplate response.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the sheltering of migrant children who arrive at the border without their parents, has not made its plan available to the congresswoman or to the public.

“The administration refuses to answer to the American people and we’re insulted by their lack of accountability,” the first-term Democrat told the paper. “It’s not just their constitutional duty to respond to our inquiries, they ought to have a plan in place by now.”

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https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/rep-debbie-mucarsel-powell-hurricane-evacuation-plan-for-unaccompanied-migrant-children-should-not-be-secret?fbclid=IwAR30G45o5N2aB7Fyhc4OE3Ao-5Q-37pt2vKDGUPaqa4rfSuTsInDjpTsFSA

[SHRED]

1. Insulted?

That's it?

[Grasswire2]

2. Can't we assume there is no plan?

The hits just keep coming from this "be best" bunch.

[Freethinker65]

3. There is no plan

[kskiska]

4. It's a disaster just waiting to happen.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Disgusting. These plans should be shared with the communities at large, since moving such a ...

large group of persons in the event of impending disasters could impact the evacuation plans of numerous other Florida entities too. These evac. plans need to be shared with other emergency personnel in FL (and other locations too), just for common sense, after all, when they do an evac. in FL (and we've all seen), roads and other means of transportation are swamped...

The rump admin. doesn't have any evac. plans, other than to fly or ship these kids overseas and dump them into other countries (who have already indicated that they don't want or can't handle these people...and all along the rump admin. is cutting 100s of millions of dollars from the budget in aid/etc. to these countries).

[CrispyQ]

6. If he won't even give them soap & toothbrushes why would we think he'd care if they're safe?

I can no longer even talk to people I know who continue to support this vile, vulgar POS.

[dhill926]

7. Seriously...what the fuck...

is there nothing that can be done about this? Gotta do better than outrage. This could be a disaster.