Thursday, 7 March 2019

Inside America's biggest facility for migrant teens

Managers of the Homestead camp in Florida call it a shelter, but activists have decried its ‘prison-like feel’

Not even the ear-splitting scream from an F-16 fighter jet tearing low through the sky at the adjacent Homestead air reserve base is enough to distract the teenagers from their soccer game.

These are the final precious moments of outdoor recreation time before they must line up in single file and silently make their way, under escort and past uniformed security guards, back inside the giant tents in southern Florida that house their cramped classrooms.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2TytiJP

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