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Fri May 17, 2019, 09:15 PM May 2019

Trump hotels should take in migrants

By Catherine E. Shoichet and David Shortell, CNN
Updated 7:28 PM ET, Fri May 17, 2019

(CNN)A possible government plan to send migrants who are in federal custody to South Florida sparked concern from local officials this week, and one mayor offered a proposal of his own.

"Bring them to the Trump hotels and ask the President to open his heart and home as well," Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said.

Bogen said in a statement that he and other local officials learned this week from US Customs and Border Protection of a plan to release hundreds of migrants weekly into the area.

"This is a humanitarian crisis. We will do everything possible to help these people," Bogen said. "If the President will not provide us with financial assistance to house and feed these people, he will be creating a homeless encampment" ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/florida-mayors-migrants/index.html

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