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Homestead Camp Kids Don’t Have Adequate Mental Health Care or Abuse Protections, Nonprofit Says

Reports on the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children outside Miami tend to fall into two categories. The federal government likes to claim the place is a clean, happy, jovial temporary dorm for immigrant kids waiting to enter the United States. The kids themselves, however, consistently keep telling lawyers and advocates that the place sucks, makes them depressed, and is leaving some of them with lasting trauma.
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Stop Arresting Grandmothers for CBD

The cannabis compound Cannabidiol (CBD) is beneficial for treating everything from addiction to arthritis, but cops are incarcerating people over it in the name of public safety. Some recent examples: Last month, a 69-year-old grandmother Hester Jordan Burkhalter was arrested in Disney World after  guards found a vial of CBD...
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Amnesty International: Homestead Official Said Kids With No Sponsor Should be Deported

When an Amnesty International delegation visited the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in April, there were at least 97 children who had no one to care for them in the United States. In a comment that stunned the Amnesty group, the Homestead facility's then-program director Leslie Wood said it was better for kids like them to be deported than placed with someone for the purpose of keeping them in the country because they might be trafficked.
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Miami’s Ten Best New Restaurants of 2019

Miami has it all: Money, beauty, creativity, and an unflappable will. Yet for too long, the city was seen as little more than an outpost for celebrity chefs looking to open a spot designed to extract money from spendthrift tourists. No more.
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Five Things to Watch at This Year’s Premios Juventud

Premios Juventud, Univision’s youth awards show, will glam up the red carpet at Miami’s Watsco Center July 18. Hosted by the boy band CNCO, Argentine artist Lali, and Mexican-American model and TV presenter Alejandra Espinoza, the 16th-annual awards show features 124 nominees in 24 categories that span music, fashion, dance, social media, and other categories.
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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Homestead Child-Migrant Shelter to Be Shut Down

A whole lot of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are visiting the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children this week. Not all of them, however, appear to have concrete plans of action as to what to do about the kids inside the shelter. But during a visit today, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren made a straightforward demand: Shut the place down.
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American Rums Shine at the Rum Renaissance Festival

This year's Rum Renaissance Festival filled the historic Coral Gables Woman's Club will fans of the spirit. Though rum is usually associated with sipping cocktails under swaying palm trees in the Caribbean, the United States is home to some wonderful rums. From Tennessee whiskey country to Islamorada, here are some fine domestic rums to try.
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Miami Basketball Fans Are the Most Engaged in the Nation

Not too long ago, this was peak-activity time for basketball in Miami. The Heat made the NBA Finals four straight seasons between 2011 and 2014, meaning things reached maximum playoff-white hotness on Biscayne Boulevard right about now. These days, things have died down a tad. Dwyane Wade has retired and the...
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Two New Meat Shops on Coral Way Promise Better Beef

A new report has damned global agribusiness and called for drastic changes in the way humanity produces and consumes food if we are to have any hope of staving off the disasters from accelerating climate change. The report, released in August by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), comes...