Are you over 21 years old and able to physically restrain a migrant kid who may have recently fled for their life to the U.S.? A prison camp for migrant kids in Homestead, Florida, may be just right for you, according to a job listing: "’In a sudden or emergency event,’ says an ad from the for-profit company that runs the center, ‘staff must at all times be physically able to run, jump, lunge, twist, push, pull, apply approved restraint techniques and otherwise manage or coerce the full weight of an infant or adolescent.’”
Miami New Times reports that advocates who have been protesting the facility noticed the job ad on the website Indeed last month, but it’s now gone. “Comprehensive Health Services, the company that has a $220 million contract to run the shelter, did not respond to New Times' inquiries about the job ad and why it was seemingly taken down.”
Nor is it known exactly why the listing explicitly lists infants, because the administration has insisted that Homestead jails unaccompanied minors, or kids who came to the U.S. alone. Either the listing is old—“the Homestead shelter once held children separated from their parents under the Trump administration's ‘zero tolerance’ policy”—or it confirms officials are lying about kids jailed there. House Democrats who have toured the facility have already said that they’ve met kids who said they came with non-parent family members, but were then separated.
Either way, a job ad that lists being able to physically restrain an infant as a requirement is yet another giant red flag in light of the administration illegally blocking federal legislators from touring Homestead. “The Department of Health and Human Services is violating federal law denying us entry today,” said Florida Congress member Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was blocked from entering Monday.
Enough. Shut Homestead down.