US government’s $33m camp for ‘imaginary migrants’

Florida detention facility for children remains open despite being empty

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The Trump administration is under pressure to explain why taxpayers are paying more than $700,000 (£560,200) a day to run an empty migrant detention centre.

Florida’s Homestead detention facility for unaccompanied minors formerly held around 3,000 children but was cleared out over the summer, when detainees were relocated as the state entered hurricane season.

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