Migrant Children Deserve Our Love, Not Detention

The Homestead detention facility may lock up innocent immigrant kids once again. It’s unconscionable.

Sonya Lewis, MD, MPH
GEN
Published in
4 min readAug 21, 2019

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People hold signs during a rally outside Homestead detention center on July 12, 2019. Photo: Gaston de Cardenas/Getty Images

II will be forever haunted by the memory of the boys in orange baseball caps playing soccer in the sweltering sun. They shouted and laughed while passing the ball, seemingly making the most of an oppressively humid…

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Sonya Lewis, MD, MPH
GEN
Writer for

Physician, musician, mother, citizen of the world.