{"id":187060,"date":"2021-03-02T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187060"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T20:15:34","slug":"report-biden-admin-plans-to-reopen-juvenile-detention-facility-dems-including-kamala-harris-once-accused-of-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-admin-plans-to-reopen-juvenile-detention-facility-dems-including-kamala-harris-once-accused-of-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Biden Admin Plans To Reopen Juvenile Detention Facility Dems, Including Kamala Harris, Once Accused Of Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-biden-admin-plans-to-reopen-juvenile-detention-facility-dems-including-kamala-harris-once-accused-of-abuse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=187060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1158855994.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration has outraged a number of pro-immigration organizations that consider themselves White House allies over plans to reopen controversial juvenile migrant detention facility in Florida \u2014 a facility that immigration activists claim is rife with \u201ccruelty\u201d and \u201cabuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/immigration\/article249449265.html?ac_cid=DM391732&#038;ac_bid=-463325994\">Miami Herald reported last week<\/a> that the Biden administration plans to reopen the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children under a new name, the \u201cBiscayne Influx Care Facility.\u201d Before being shuttered in 2019, the center was the target of pro-immigration and anti-detention protests over \u201charrowing testimonials\u201d from children and teenagers housed at the center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/migrant-children-describe-life-at-homestead-shelter-in-court-filing\/\">according to CBS News<\/a>, and was, at one point, the subject of litigation, with pro-immigration attorneys filing a 600-page motion detailing \u201cdozens\u201d of issues, including allegations of cruelty, abuse, and draconian disciplinary tactics.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints about Homestead were so dire that, in 2019, Democrats competing to become the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee \u2014 including now-Vice President Kamala Harris \u2014 visited the facility ahead of a Democratic primary debate centering around immigration, deliberately held near the detention center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democratic candidates and campaign representatives who visited Homestead that summer \u2014 Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Marianne Williamson, Elizabeth Warren, John Hickenlooper, Bill de Blasio, and Tulsi Gabbard, plus Bernie Sanders\u2019 wife and adviser Jane \u2014 made some speeches, stood on ladders to get a look at the shelter behind a tall fence, and summoned the attention of national media outlets,\u201d t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miaminewtimes.com\/news\/biden-to-reopen-homestead-shelter-for-migrant-children-11881926\">he Miami New Times noted in its report<\/a> on the facility reopening under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Grassroots leaders in Florida say they are \u201cappalled\u201d by the Biden administration\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a place for children,\u201d one activist claimed to the New Times. \u201cThis is a place that is going to be impossible to maintain COVID safety regulations. We\u2019re already putting these children in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be quite frank, I am appalled that the Biden administration has chosen to reopen a detention camp where children have consistently faced abuse and neglect. No human being should ever be put in the type of danger that the Biden administration is actively choosing to put hundreds to thousands of children in right now,\u201d a second prominent progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/opinion\/commentary\/fl-op-com-biden-homestead-immigration-children-20210226-n6u7faud6ncaxcggqy3iw4kdhq-story.html\">wrote in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICE has repeatedly demonstrated that they do not value the humanity and dignity of immigrant families, and the announcement that they plan to re-open the for-profit immigration detention facility at Homestead is further evidence of that,\u201d progressive Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/biden-allies-outraged-plan-re-open-migrant-child-center-dogged-abuse-allegations-1572122\">added to Newsweek<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAt Homestead, children are reported to have gone hungry and cried themselves to sleep after being forcefully separated from their families\u2014this is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration responded to criticism by saying they have not yet decided whether to send the dozens of unaccompanied minor children awaiting asylum processing to the Homestead center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA decision has not yet been made on the Biscayne Influx Care Facility,\u201d Health and Human Services spokesman Mark Weber told Newsweek. \u201cWe will notify state and local officials well in advance of opening this or any other temporary influx care facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has outraged a number of pro-immigration organizations that consider themselves White House allies over plans to reopen controversial juvenile migrant detention facility in Florida \u2014 a facility &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274588,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1158855994.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Biden Admin Plans To Reopen Juvenile Detention Facility Dems, Including Kamala Harris, Once Accused Of Abuse","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1158855994.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Biden Admin Plans To Reopen Juvenile Detention Facility Dems, Including Kamala Harris, Once Accused Of Abuse","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}