CLAIM: Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said at the second Democratic debate that “children” at the border are being “incarcerated as though they’ve committed crimes.”
VERDICT: False — minors are being sheltered until they can be released to the custody of relatives or guardians.
Progressives gathered Friday night and held celebrity-endorsed vigils across the country in over 700 cities to protest migrant shelters – or what left-wing lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) call “concentration camps” – on the southern border.
Democrat Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson stated Tuesday that those who mock members of Congress online should be prosecuted.
Former Vice President Joe Biden failed to keep his promise to a voter who asked him to visit the Homestead facility.
MIAMI, Florida — Former vice preisdent Joe Biden will not visit the “spin room” after participating in the second night of the first Democratic Party presidential primary debate Thursday evening, according to a report from Buzzfeed News.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke visited the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on Thursday and suggested America should “bring some of these walls down” that assist in the prevention of illegal immigration.
Bernie Sanders visited the Homestead protest and said the U.S. should address the “root cause” of migration, which he said was violence in Central America.
Beto O’Rourke said that rising temperatures had created droughts, which made it more difficult for people to grow their own food. That, he said, forced them to undertake the arduous journey on foot to the U.S. border, and to cross illegally.
Fact check: Julian Castro said in the Democrat debates that he would end the “zero tolerance” policy by executive order. But President Trump did so, at least formally, last year.
A growing list of 2020 Democrat candidates are visiting a youth migrant shelter in Florida, with some – such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) – visiting the facility hours before the first Democrat presidential debate in Miami.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) visited a protest outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on Wednesday morning, hours ahead of the start of the Democratic debates.
Left-wing actress turned political activist Alyssa Milano played the role of investigative reporter on Wednesday and went “live” on social media at a Florida migrant shelter for unaccompanied youths, tried to enter the facility, and failed to do so.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is one-upping her Democratic rivals by promising to make a pre-debate, TV-magnified visit to a nearby center that shelters foreign youths before they are handed over to U.S.-based “sponsors.”
