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Comprehensive health Services in Canaveral is the focus of an investigation. Their facility in homestead has become the focus of demonstrations and congressional visits. Now they are evacuating the facility perhaps permanently. What is going on? 1/
And where are they taking these kids. This move has the effect of creating bureaucratic chaos in a process already fraught with challenges, and it makes transparency and accountability even more difficult.

miaminewtimes.com/news/house-ove…
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This is insane. Literally no-one in Florida EVER evacuates for a tropical wave. This detention center has been the focus of demonstrations, congressional visits, and investigations. Where are they taking these kids?!

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This happened the other day 🤔
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WITNESS JOSHUA RUBIN posts-We have questions.

If so many children have left, as they tell us, why are so many of the so-called youth care workers still being dropped off on the north side of the prison, which, according to leaked documents, is no longer housing children? 1/6
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WITNESS JOSHUA RUBIN-In little less than a week the scrum of candidates jostling 2 run as the Dem 2 oppose Trump (name I never thought I would say here) will B in Miami 4 a debate, a media event. Over 2 nights each will get about 6 minutes 2 impress who decides to tune in.
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While these candidates scramble 4 attention about 30 miles 2 the south, at a place that would still B Everglades if flow of water north 2 south had not been re-engineered years ago, a few thousand migrant kids behind fences in tents & decrepit quarters will go unseen...2/6
... by the nation, by the world.
The prison camp, damn it, the Concentration Camp, for migrant children, less than an hour’s drive away from those candidates and the circus around their trip here, will be conducting its business.3/6
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Witness: Tornillo. Target: Homestead
@TornilloWitness
WITNESS JOSHUA RUBIN reports-When someone gets a job at Homestead prison for migrant children, they are required to cut all ties to social media. To close down their FaceBook accounts, to give up their Instagram, to stop using Twitter. 1/7
That’s what will happen 2 those who earn their blue T-shirt’s, their caps, & start carrying their seethrough backpacks 2 work, once they clear low hurdle 2 become member of staff that is asked 2 enforce & carry out inhumane policies of R punitive government...2/7
...forcing children 2 live in overcrowded & grim buildings, trailers & tents of this concentration camp in south FL. Unsurprisingly, it is hard 2 keep enough people working there. So, this week another job fair takes place at small disused bank building right outside Gate 1. 3/7
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So while Comprehensive Health Services runs Florida Homestead's child concentration camp (& first for-profit child detention facility), DoD contractor General Dynamics has had numerous government contracts for the Homestead facility.
Contract for General Dynamics Information Technology (IT)

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A) The Unitarians are usually so excruciatingly polite, but here they are calling this out in no uncertain terms.
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--Comprehensive Health Services got a $600,000 tax break.

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