they pretended as if they didn t know who i was talking about, but i had their names. and then they said, oh, she wanted to move, she wanted to go to this place. profit and greed is what that s what s happening at the homestead facility. profit and greed and they re just accepting children and squeezing them, and it s the only private institution in this nation, so we don t have the same latitude of inspection that we have in all of the other facilities. and the poor children don t go to school. they have school in the facility, and the protesters outside said when the children come outside, congresswoman wilson, we have never seen a girl outside. we get up on a ladder and we watch the boys play. we have never seen a girl. so this is very disturbing to
what i saw in there is not anything that i would want for my children, and if i don t want it for my children then it s not okay for anyone else s children. god help us all if this is what americans do. congresswoman frederica wilson of florida said this i asked to see the girls. there are 700 girls in this facility. i saw 30. when i tried to go into the dormitory that houses the girls, they said to me they were in intake and it might be dangerous or contiguous. that s what they said to me. so i m staying because i want to see what s dangerous, what is contiguous because i do not believe them. leading off our discussion now is democratic congresswoman frederica wilson from florida. she led that congressional delegation to inspect the homestead, florida facility for children. also with other, democratic
and you know it rains in florida almost every evening, and god forbid in the wintertime. so people were walking around this facility with masks on their faces and i couldn t understand that. i m sure it made the children feel so uncomfortable. and i had been there for hours and i kept saying where are the adolescent girls? let me see the adolescent girls. because i am concerned about their well-being and what kind of help they are getting in addressing moving from girlhood to womanhood. and no one showed me the girls. i saw a group of girls in a classroom, maybe 30, but i they have 700 girls in this facility, and i wanted to see them, i wanted to talk to them, i wanted to touch them, i wanted to question them and find out how they were getting along.
intake, whether there are diseases, whatever is there, i want to see the girls. so when i went in to see the girls, i was astonished at the living conditions, the bunk beds, the staff wearing masks and all of the upper echelon of the facility are men. not one single one of them speaks spanish. and the three top people who work there, three months ago three women who speak spanish were terminated, and i asked them, why were these women terminated, why are they no longer here? they pretended as if they didn t know who i was talking about, but i had their names. and then they said, oh, she wanted to move, she wanted to go to this place. profit and greed is what that s what s happening at the
dhs agents and officers and to those detained. the inspector general s report confirmed what we saw yesterday captured on video by democratic congressman joaquin castro at the border station in clint, texas, and reported by this 12-year-old girl who was held at that border station in clint, texas for almost two weeks who says they slept on floors, were not allowed to play and were locked up if they cried for their parents. today more members of congress visited the facility in homestead, florida, that holds the largest number of unaccompanied minors in the country. it is a for-profit business called the homestead shelter. and one of the big profiteers of that business is former white house chief of staff and former trump secretary of homeland security john kelly, who is on the border of the company that is raking in profits by locking