Scrambling for additional space to house migrant children, the Trump administration awarded a contract to a company that planned to open a facility in the administration’s own backyard of Washington, DC. But on Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that she would not allow the center to open in the staunchly Democratic city. “We have no intention of accepting a new federal facility,” Bowser said in a statement Tuesday in response to an inquiry from Mother Jones, “least of all one that detains and dehumanizes migrant children.” The detention center would have housed unaccompanied migrant children from ages 12 to 17 and been run by Dynamic Service Solutions, a company based in nearby National Harbor, Maryland, that has no record of experience running facilities for children.
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Jessica Washington, Mother Jones
Tue, 08/13/2019 - 2:44pm
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