by Amy Green | Aug 4, 2026 | Cancer, Earthjustice, Florida, Miami, Migrant Children, News, Pollution, superfund sites
Migrant children incarcerated at a now-closed facility next to an Air Force Reserve base outside of Miami were exposed to toxic chemicals such as arsenic and lead, which are linked with developmental harm and cancer, according to more than 20,000 pages of records released as part of federal litigation over the site. The Homestead migrant detention center for unaccompanied children…
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by Adam Mahoney | Jun 1, 2026 | Climate Crisis, Climate Gentrification, Florida, Gentrification, Miami, News
By the time Latonya Floyd came outside, the photographer’s lens was already pointed toward her family’s home. There was “no knock, no hello,” she said. When she asked what he was doing, he replied that he was “just getting pictures of the property,” for his boss, a real estate investor. The Floyds had lived in that house for three generations, through racial uprisings in the 1960s…
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