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REPORT: 2020 Dems Trying To Gain Access To Border Detention Facilities Ahead Of Debate

Emily Zanotti
REPORT: 2020 Dems Trying To Gain Access To Border Detention Facilities Ahead Of Debate
EL PASO, TX – MARCH 22: In this handout image provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs – Visual Communications Division, U.S. Border Patrol agents, including members of U.S. Border Patrol’s BORSTAR teams (in tactical uniforms) provide food, water and medical screening to scores of migrants at a processing center […]

MSNBC reported Tuesday that several Democrats vying for the party’s 2020 nomination will attempt to hold a press conference or conduct a photo call at one of the border patrol’s busiest detention facilities, the Homestead, Florida, detention center for unaccompanied minors, ahead of Wednesday’s primary debate in Miami.

The Homestead Temporary Shelter For Unaccompanied Children has been the focus of a number of pro-immigrant protests since the summer of 2018, when the Trump administration was holding minor children, separated from their parents under the administration’s then-policy, at the South Florida facility.

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