De Blasio calls Florida migrant shelter 'a prison camp'
September 5, 2020 | News | No Comments
White House hopeful Bill de BlasioBill de BlasioProtesters splash red paint on NYC streets to symbolize blood De Blasio: Robert E Lee’s ‘name should be taken off everything in America, period’ House Democratic whip pushes back on calls to defund police: We need to focus on reform MORE (D) on Thursday called the facility which houses migrant children in Homestead, Fla., a “prison camp” after the New York City mayor toured the facility.
“It looks like a prison … you’ve got a bunch of kids being marched around, teenagers, and it does not look like a place where teenagers are supposed to be or families are supposed to be,” de Blasio said after his visits. “I look at that, immediately I thought: that’s a prison camp.”
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“It’s not a rehabilitation center, it’s not temporary housing, it’s prison camp.”
“They didn’t do anything wrong but they’re being treated like prisoners,” he added.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment on de Blasio’s remarks.
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Several of de Blasio’s fellow 2020 candidates have promised to visit the facility while they are in Miami for the first primary debates this week.
As of June 16, some 2,450 unaccompanied migrant children between the ages of 13 and 17 were being held at the Homestead facility, according to a Health and Human Services fact sheet.
Scrutiny on the facility has been reignited recently after attorneys told The Associated Press about filthy, dangerous conditions in which children were being held at a border facility in Clint, Texas.
Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE (D-Mass.) said she saw migrants walked around “like little prisoners” after visiting the facility Wednesday.
