Hundreds Protest Outside Homestead Detention Center On Mother’s Day

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Monique O. Madan

Published May 13, 2019 at 7:17 AM EDT

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Moms, activists and children march outside the Homestead Detention Center, demanding the facility be shut down and that all immigrant children be placed with the families with whom they came to live, or at least be housed in appropriate facilities.

DANIEL A. VARELA / Miami Herald

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A member of the clergy from the Coral Gables Congregational church holds a sign while marching amongst other protestors demanding the closure of the Homestead child detention facility, the largest in the country.

DANIEL A. VARELA / Miami Herald

More than 300 people flooded the streets Sunday outside the Homestead detention center for migrant children.

The “Mother’s Day March” took place at 920 Bougainville Blvd. in South Miami-Dade,where about 3,200 unaccompanied minors are being detained after crossing the southern border without their biological parents.

Dozens of religious organizations were shuttled in while many protesters traveled from out of state to participate.

The Homestead shelter, the only facility for migrant children operated by a for-profit corporation,has been shrouded in secrecy and cloaked in controversy from the moment it was reactivated in February 2018.

Read more at our news partner, the Miami Herald.