This week I visited Homestead to conduct Congressional oversight. It was not my first time visiting and it will not be my last - until this facility is shut down, and every kid there is placed with eligible sponsors or moved to non-restrictive, licensed community-based residential facilities.

After our visit we held a press conference to discuss what we saw at Homestead.

I want to share some key points from my visit with you:

• We've been fighting, without success, to get information about the facility's hurricane preparedness plan. Today they committed to give us a briefing.

• We asked how many children have been apprehended in the interior U.S., taken from their families, and treated as unaccompanied minors. They did not give us an answer.

• We asked about how much information the Office of Refugee Resettlement is sharing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, that DHS could use to engage in enforcement action about potential sponsors for kids at Homestead - and didn't get a clear answer.
  

• We learned extremely troubling information about the education program at Homestead: the company running the facility does an academic assessment they made up themselves. The kids aren't taught by certified teachers. And we have no idea what standards they're using.
  

I will follow up on every single question this administration has left unanswered, fight for immigrant youth, and push for this facility to be closed.

Yazmin Juárez testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform