Senator denied entry to see Florida child migrant facility (Sen. Bill Nelson)

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By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and BEN FOX Today

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson accused the Trump administration of a “cover-up” after officials denied him entry Tuesday to a detention center for migrant children in South Florida where he had hoped to survey living conditions.

Nelson and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, both Florida Democrats, went to the contractor-run Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children following reports it was receiving detained children who had arrived in the country illegally.

Wasserman Schultz said the facility was being used for an estimated 1,000 children, aged 13 to 17 — most of whom arrived as unaccompanied minors and about 10 percent of whom are children separated from their families at the border. She said two other South Florida facilities were being used for younger children.

“It is an affront as the senior senator of this state that an agency head would tell me that I do not have entrance into a federally funded facility where the lives and health of children are at stake,” Nelson said.

https://apnews.com/dcee71c50b404c66ad5804b5e5807e9f

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1. This just light me up!

Why are the duly elected representatives of the people, the elected officials who control the purse strings of the budget... not allowed entry into Government run facilities? OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE PAYING FOR THIS/
Our representatives have the burden of oversight.
This is a national outrage.
Our constitutional powers are being neutered.

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2. They need to return every day until the children are freed

with an army of reporters, religious leaders, human rights organizations, anyone who can help or have influence.