Castro, Harris, Other 2020 Hopefuls Join Forces to Blast Trump at Migrant Detention Site in Florida

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Five Democratic presidential hopefuls joined Friday in a show of force at a converted military base where 2,700 migrant teens are being detained.Texan Julián Castro joined Sen. Kamala Harris and the others in denouncing President Donald Trump's treatment of migrants as inhumane, and demanding closure of the nation's first for-profit juvenile detention facility.Castro lamented that the public has become "desensitized" in the Trump era to such treatment. "If a parent in a suburb was treating their child the way that some of these children are being treated in these detention facilities, child protective services could come in and take that child away."Harris called it "human rights violation being committed by our government."  Continue reading...

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