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Miami-Dade students' letters of hope for children at the Homestead...rejected by workers
Miami-Dade students' letters of hope for children at the Homestead detention facility were rejected by workers. NBC 6's Willard Shepard reports.
(Published Tuesday, July 2, 2019)
Letters written by South Florida school kids for the children at the migrant detention facility in Homestead were rejected by the workers running the facility, according to the Miami-Dade teachers union president.
United Teachers of Dade president Karla Hernandez-Mats said she thought getting a letter from the outside was completely harmless and would be an inspiration for the 2,700 youngsters inside the facility. So Miami-Dade students used crayons markers and pens to write them letters but when teachers brought them to the camp, they were rejected by those who are running the facility for the federal government, Hernandez-Mats said.
Hernandez-Mats said students had been asked to write the letters shortly before school ended for the summer for the children at the camp, which became a must-stop destination for Democrats in Miami for last week's debates.
"We had hundreds of letters come in, hundreds of letters from students and they are so pure of heart," she told NBC 6.
The letters contained drawings and messages like "my heart goes out to you" and "love you, have hope."
"It was really nice messages of children speaking to other children, letting them know like 'we want to give you hope, everything is going to be ok and we are sorry this is happening to you,'" Hernandez-Mats said.
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https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Young-Messages-of-Hope-to-Migrant-Children--512121202.html?fbclid=IwAR0vBzdGC5w_MI8bZJHsICcdFcEwT-eenfkHdF88ZZDt1mWSTr2LifYwQVg
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that someone at the Whitehouse or at DHS hasn't told those "facility workers" to just make life hell for those kids. Those people have been DIRECTED to treat children like garbage.
I firmly believe this.
