CELEBRATE!CHILDREN REMOVED FROM HOMESTEAD FLORIDA DETENTION CENTER On August 3rd, the last migrant children were removed from the Homestead Immigrant Detention Center near Miami, Florida.  With leadership from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), UU’s and other people of faith have been signing petitions, holding vigils, contacting members of Congress and protesting at the Detention Center for some time now demanding that this and other prison like detention centers be closed. According to an article in the August 3rd Miami Times Herald (Click HERE), children were picked up in vans between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. Saturday August 3rd. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that “all (children) sheltered in the Homestead facility have either been reunified with an appropriate sponsor or transferred to a state-licensed facility within its (Office of Refugee Resettlement) network of care providers as of August 3rd.” Susan Leslie, the Unitarian Universalists Congregational Advocacy and […]