Felony drug defendant tells shocked Miami judge: I work caring for kids seized at border
During the day, Franky Santos attends meetings for people trying to get clean, occasionally performs community service, and appears regularly before the Miami judge who oversees the county's Drug Court.
At night, he's a caregiver for immigrant children being held at a Homestead shelter.
As controversy continues to swirl over the Trump administration's immigration policy even after it walked back a decision to separate undocumented immigrant children from their parents and house them in shelters a new question looms: Who's minding the kids?
Though children's advocates and human rights groups have criticized the administration's earlier decision to house even small children in shelters some of which include chain-link fencing likened to cages Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other administration officials have insisted that the youngsters are well-cared for.
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