Homestead isn't just for kids at the border, it's for kids living in the U.S. their whole lives

Homestead isn’t just for kids at the border, it’s for kids living in the U.S. their whole lives

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article232579432.html

By Monique O. Madan
July 12, 2019 06:00 AM, Updated July 12, 2019 10:11 PM



At the 3,200-bed Homestead detention center for unaccompanied immigrant youths, one 15-year-old boy is an aberration: He has lived in the United States virtually his entire life.

Far from being a recent arrival at the southern border, the teen entered the country when he was a 9-month-old infant; he has lived in Houston his whole life, along with his mother, who brought him to the U.S. in 2004.

More than two weeks ago, the teen was detained in Texas when a local county cop pulled his uncle over for speeding. When they could not produce immigration documents, the boy and his uncle — the Miami Herald is not identifying either one because of their immigration status — were promptly arrested, then separated.

The teen, who was transferred among four different government agencies in four days prior to arriving in Homestead, is among thousands of detainees at the nation’s largest detention center for unaccompanied minors in South Miami-Dade County. Both he and his mother originally arrived in the U.S. without documentation.
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