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A news conference was held over the weekend and it was announced that Washington, D.C. was one of the locations that the Trump Administration has picked to use as a shelter for unaccompanied migrant children.
A shelter is scheduled to open in Northern Virginia, and now the buzz on the street that D.C. is the next site.
As reported in the Washington Post, a company named Dynamic Service Solutions, a federal contractor, filed an application to open the temporary shelter in D.C. The contractor is searching for bilingual employees to work with unaccompanied migrant children.
Dynamic Solutions is already advertising job openings for bilingual lead case manager, bilingual medical coordinator and bilingual youth care worker.
Mayor Muriel Bowser is “Livid”!!!!
Mayor Bowser said in a statement that the city will “not be complicit in the inhumane practice of detaining migrant children in warehouses.”
MAYOR BOWSER: “We know that such impersonal spaces are not what our most vulnerable families and children need. We have no intention of accepting a new federal facility, least of all one that detains and dehumanizes migrant children.”
Councilmember Brandon Todd, who represents Ward 4 where the proposed unaccompanied minor shelter could be said in a statement on Twitter that he will not stand idly by as children are placed in danger that could leave “irreparable, lasting trauma.”
COUNCILMEMBER TODD: “I will do everything in my power to fight against this inhumanity.”
