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Sen. Nelson to see 1,000 migrant children being held in south Florida federal facility

Senator Bill Nelson will be in Homestead, Florida on Tuesday to visit a facility where reports state over 1,000 migrant children are being held.
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JUNE 01: Hundreds of advocates participate in rally and demonstration at the Federal Building in Manhattan against the policy that enables federal agents to take children away from their parents at the border. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Senator Bill Nelson will be in Homestead, Florida on Tuesday to visit a facility where reports state over 1,000 migrant children are being held.

Some of the children being held at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children were separated from their families at the border and others were unaccompanied minors when they crossed the border.

Sen. Nelson was one of 40 Senators to sign a document urging President Trump's administration to reverse the "inhumane decision to separate children from their parents at the border."

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This document was signed and released on June 7. On Monday, the first looks inside of a Texas facility where migrant children are being held was released showing hundreds of children behind fences, in cages that were described to be similar to dog kennels.

Nelson will meet with officials at 12 p.m. on Tuesday at the Homestead facility. He said in a Tweet that, "we, as a society, are better than this."

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