Democratic presidential hopefuls turned the Miami-area facility into a campaign stop this summer, when about 2,500 teens were held there. They attacked the administration for holding children in a cramped detention centre run by a private company tied to former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. It reopened in March 2018, but the contractor was then backed by a private equity company Kelly had advised as a board member in the months before joining the Trump administration. Three months after leaving the Trump administration in January, Kelly was spotted by protesters touring the facility east of the Everglades in a golf cart. “Caliburn will no longer receive millions of dollars to operate an empty facility,” Mucarsel-Powell said.

Source: thestar October 28, 2019 17:26 UTC