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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Migrant Children Are Spending Months ‘Crammed’ in a Temporary Florida Shelter</font></font></font></font></div><div>ImageThe detention center in Homestead, Fla., is intended to keep children for only a few days but has been holding them for much longer.</div><div>The detention center in Homestead, Fla., is intended to keep children for only a few days but has been holding them for much longer.CreditCreditEve Edelheit for The New York Times</div><div>By Miriam Jordan</div><div>June 26, 2019</div><div>HOMESTEAD, Fla. — About half of the roughly 2,300 children confined in a privately run Florida facility intended as a temporary shelter for migrant teenagers have been there for more than 20 days and many of them for months, despite legal standards that require children who cross the border to be speedily released or sent to state-licensed shelters that are equipped to offer longer-term care.</div><div>
</div><div>The Homestead center near Miami, the only one in the government’s large network of shelters run by a private, for-profit corporation, is intended to keep children for only a few days, but has been holding them for much longer as a result of the unusually large number of unaccompanied children arriving in recent months along the southwest border.</div><div>
</div><div>A recent population census, from June 25, showed that 1,162 children at the shelter had been there longer than 20 days. The report, obtained by The New York Times from a Homestead employee, listed 840 children who had been there more than 30 days, and 224 for at least 60 days.</div><div>
</div><div>A Guatemalan boy had been there the longest, 122 days, according to the report. A 14-year-old Guatemalan girl had been there 119 days.</div><div>
</div><div>The Homestead shelter has been the subject of close scrutiny in recent days, as overcrowding at migrant facilities along the border has led to growing concerns about the handling of migrant children not just at the border, but across the country. For several days, the Trump administration has been under attack for filthy housing conditions observers saw at a border station near Clint, Tex.</div><div>
</div><div>On Wednesday, ahead of the opening presidential debate, a parade of Democratic presidential contenders streamed out to the Homestead facility to criticize the conditions under which migrant children are being held at facilities along the border.</div><div>
</div><div>“What is happening at Homestead to children — what is happening as the direct result of activities of the United States government — is wrong,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who led the pack. “It is a stain on our country, and we must speak out.” Following Ms. Warren later in the day were Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Jane Sanders, the wife of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.</div><div>
</div><div>Children living at Homestead have complained that it is extremely crowded and noisy, and that they enjoy no privacy, according to reports filed with a federal court. They report feeling increasingly despondent because they have no idea when they will be released, lawyers said. Rules prohibit them from listening to music or writing in a journal. Some reported having suicidal thoughts.</div><div>
</div><div>Amy Cohen, a psychiatrist who has visited the facility, said the noise level was extremely high, especially in a tent with no soundproofing where “children are crammed” and teachers must use microphones to be heard above the noise.</div><div>
</div><div>“One child told me that many of the girls used requests for a bathroom break as a means to just briefly escape the noise and insufferable crowding, but that teachers had caught onto this and were refusing the requests,” she said.</div><div>
</div><div>Image“What is happening at Homestead to children — what is happening as the direct result of activities of the United States government — is wrong,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a visit to the facility.</div><div>“What is happening at Homestead to children — what is happening as the direct result of activities of the United States government — is wrong,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a visit to the facility.CreditEve Edelheit for The New York Times</div><div>In many shelters, children are occasionally taken on outings for a change of environment. At Homestead, Dr. Cohen said, “the children never get out of this place, unless they have a medical appointment.”</div><div>
</div><div>Immigrant advocates have gone to court to argue that Homestead should be required to meet the rigorous standards established for detaining migrant children — though government officials argue that the facility, operated as a temporary “influx” shelter, not a detention center, is not legally required to do so.</div><div>
</div><div>Under those standards, established under a 1997 consent decree, children must generally be released within about 20 days, or transferred to a licensed shelter that has comfortable living accommodations and a full education program.</div><div>
</div><div>Costing over $1 million a day to operate, Homestead opened in February after the Trump administration closed a teeming tent city for migrant children in the desert at Tornillo, on the Texas border, which critics had described as a juvenile prison.</div><div>
</div><div>Sandwiched between a former Job Corps campus and the Homestead Air Reserve Base, the Homestead facility houses adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18. The facility’s beige barrackslike dormitories and white tents feel a world apart from the upscale gated communities nearby with names like Waterstone and Malibu Bay.</div><div>
</div><div>Evelyn Stauffer, a spokeswoman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees government shelters, said the agency was struggling to accommodate a surge in arrivals of migrant minors, who are mainly from Central America. Shelters across the country are currently holding more than 13,000 children and are at 90 percent capacity, with new referrals totaling more than 52,000 children so far this year — a 60 percent increase over 2018.</div><div>
</div><div>“As you are aware, we are responding to a historical crisis at the border,” she said, adding that in the current fiscal year her agency had received more referrals than for the entire 2018 fiscal year.</div><div>
</div><div>In May, the average length of stay at Homestead was 35 days, she said, compared with 44 days at the state-licensed, longer-term shelters.</div><div>
</div><div>Tetiana Anderson, a spokeswoman for Caliburn International, the private company that operates Homestead, said in response to questions that, “Every day at the Homestead shelter, over 4,000 bilingual Caliburn employees strive to provide the highest level of care and to unite each child with a vetted sponsor as swiftly as possible.”</div><div>
</div><div>“The truth is the children at the Homestead temporary emergency shelter are provided a wide range of services — medical and behavioral care, daily educational classes, recreational exercise both inside and outside. The physical and emotional well-being of each and every child is the shelter’s primary concern,” she said.</div><div>
</div><div>After the closing of the tent camp for migrant children at Tornillo, the government announced that it would double the capacity at Homestead, which had operated briefly under President Obama.</div><div>
</div><div>Image</div><div>The Trump administration closed a tent city for migrant children in Tornillo, on the Texas border.CreditMike Blake/Reuters</div><div>Unlike Tornillo, Homestead is operated by a for-profit company, Comprehensive Health Services, owned by Caliburn — and there is no sign that it will be functioning only temporarily.</div><div>
</div><div>But like the tent city in Texas, the facility in Florida is not subject to state regulations and inspections intended to guarantee child welfare — only to a loose set of Department of Health and Human Services guidelines.</div><div>
</div><div>In contrast, permanent shelters traditionally used to detain minors must abide by state requirements for staff vetting and training, as well as standards that ensure minors are educated and safe.</div><div>
</div><div>Ms. Stauffer, the spokeswoman for the refugee agency overseeing Homestead and more than 165 other migrant shelters in 23 states, said the agency was preparing to open another temporary influx shelter in Carrizo Springs, Tex., expected to hold 1,300 minors. A new permanent facility just opened that will house about 100 youngsters in Lake Worth, Fla.</div><div>
</div><div>The pilgrimage of Democratic candidates began on Tuesday, when Representative Eric Swalwell of California dropped in to greet a cadre of regular protesters.</div><div>
</div><div>More than a dozen candidates are expected to visit by the end of the week; Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York and Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii scheduled stops for Thursday.</div><div>
</div><div>On Friday, a local congresswoman, Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell of Miami, plans to arrive with a gaggle of candidates: Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.; former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro of Texas; Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York; Senator Kamala Harris of California; former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado; and the spiritual guru Marianne Williamson.</div><div>
</div><div>During her visit, Ms. Warren, mobbed by television cameras, took the hand of Summit Wicks-Lim, 8, and they climbed step ladders to peek into the shelter property.</div><div>
</div><div>At first, there was little activity. “There’s no children out right now,” said Summit, who had come from Massachusetts with her mother.</div><div>
</div><div>Then, several children came out in single file, Ms. Warren said.</div><div>
</div><div>Some of them looked over. Ms. Warren, in sunglasses and a baseball cap, and Summit, in sunglasses and braids, waved. Ms. Warren lifted Summit up so she could see a little better.</div><div>
</div><div>“Los queremos!” activists yelled out to them in Spanish. We care about you.</div><div>
</div><div>“Estamos luchando por ustedes. No están solos,” read one of their banners. We are fighting for you. You are not alone.</div><div>
</div><div>Some of the protesters raised big red cardboard hearts.</div><div>
</div><div>Patricia Mazzei in Homestead contributed reporting.</div><div>
</div><div>A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: At a Florida Shelter, Days Become Months For Migrant Children.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LI</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Capital Partners purchased Comprehensive Health Services and three other companies to form Caliburn International LLC</b>:&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/homestead-miami-child-migrant-camp-contractor-caliburn-cancels-stock-ipo-11105466" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none;">2018</a></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 12.5px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Month in which Caliburn announced plans for a<b> $100 million initial public offering of stock</b>,<b> promising growth because of Trump's immigration policies — plans it withdrew after negative press coverage:&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliburn_International" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none;">10/2018</a></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 12.5px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Month in which former <b>White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former adviser to D.C. Capital Partners, joined Caliburn's board of directors:&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kelly-joins-board-of-caliburn-international-company-operating-largest-unaccompanied-migrant-children-shelter/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none;">5/2019</a></span>&nbsp;()</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 12.5px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a victory for the movement to end migrant child detention, date on which<b> North Carolina-based Bank of America, Caliburn's chief financier, announced it would no longer work with&nbsp;operators of immigrant detention centers and private prisons:&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/27/bank-america-cut-ties-detention-centers-private-prisons/1589221001/?fbclid=IwAR1ZvOaTqmDqyqm4XwMgFv7EhADHI7TJ9txYTCNxopNDsSD4sV7VfMDpq_I" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(8, 136, 193); text-decoration-line: none;">6/26/2019</a></span></b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 12.5px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/warren-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-trumps-former-fda-chief-after-he-quietly-joins-pfizer-board/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/warren-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-trumps-former-fda-chief-after-he-quietly-joins-pfizer-board/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/warren-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-trumps-former-fda-chief-after-he-quietly-joins-pfizer-board/" rel="bookmark" title="Warren calls for immediate resignation of Trump’s former FDA chief after he quietly joins Pfizer board" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Warren calls for immediate resignation of Trump’s former FDA chief after he quietly joins Pfizer board</b></font></a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/warren-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-trumps-former-fda-chief-after-he-quietly-joins-pfizer-board/" rel="bookmark" title="Warren calls for immediate resignation of Trump’s former FDA chief after he quietly joins Pfizer board" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/warren-calls-for-immediate-resignation-of-trumps-former-fda-chief-after-he-quietly-joins-pfizer-board/" rel="bookmark" title="Warren calls for immediate resignation of Trump’s former FDA chief after he quietly joins Pfizer board" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Ma<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ybe&nbsp;<b>Scott Gottlieb</b>&nbsp;thought he could avoid scrutiny by making the move to the board of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer just over two months after leaving his position as President Donald Trump’s commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—but if so, he didn’t count on Sen. Elizabeth Warren.</span></font></a><div class="p1_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who is also running for her party’s nomination for president in 2020, released&nbsp;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/2019.07.01_letter_to_scott_gottlieb_re_joining_board_of_pfizer.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a letter</a>&nbsp;(pdf) Tuesday morning calling on Gottlieb to step down from the board in the name of government ethics.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"You will be on the board of a company that has billions of dollars at stake&nbsp;in the decisions made by the agency you used to head and the employees you used to lead,” states Warren’s letter.</font></p><div class="p3_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s a profitable venture for Gottlieb.</font></p><div class="p4_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“According to Pfizer,” Warren notes, “board members in&nbsp;2018 were paid $142,500 in cash retainers, plus received $192,500 worth of Pfizer stock.”</font></p><div class="p5_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-6" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><cnx class="cnx-main-container" style="box-sizing: initial; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; line-height: 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); width: 629.986px; height: auto; position: relative; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img class="cnx-image-placeholder" src="https://img.connatix.com/556e0695-18e4-44f7-8f45-a1aa8ad52421/1_th.jpg?height=355&width=630&fit=bounds&crop=630:355,smart" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: top; height: auto; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 629.986px; display: block;" /><cnx class="cnx-video-container cnx-size-responsive cnx-float bottom-right cnx-float-transition cnx-bp-lg cnx-in-can-close" style="box-sizing: initial; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; line-height: 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); z-index: 9999; position: absolute; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 0px 2px 7px; width: 400px; height: 225px; top: auto; bottom: 30px; right: 30px; left: auto; transition: left 400ms ease-in-out 0s, right 400ms ease-in-out 0s;"><cnx class="cnx-ui cnx-ui-video _3fc21562091635750 cnx-in-mute cnx-is-playing" style="box-sizing: initial; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; line-height: 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); width: 400px; height: 225px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; flex-direction: column; pointer-events: all; z-index: 10; transition: margin 200ms ease-in-out 0s, opacity 200ms ease-in-out 0s; overflow: hidden;"><cnx class="cnx-ui-gradient-top" style="box-sizing: initial; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; line-height: 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); position: absolute; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.36) 0%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) 26.1%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14) 67.59%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%); width: 400px; z-index: -1; transition: inherit; height: 120px; top: 0px; opacity: 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Value of the tax break Comprehensive Health Services, the Florida company that co-manages the Homestead facility, got from the state in July 2017: $600,000</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Five months before receiving the tax break, amount the company paid to settle a medical fraud claim brought by the U.S. Justice Department: $3.8 million</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Value of the contract that Virginia-based defense contractor General Dynamics got to provide training and technical assistance at the Homestead facility: $1.6 million</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Year in which the investment firm D.C. Capital Partners purchased Comprehensive Health Services and three other companies to form Caliburn International LLC: 2018</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Month in which Caliburn announced plans for a $100 million initial public offering of stock, promising growth because of Trump's immigration policies — plans it withdrew after negative press coverage: 10/2018</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Month in which former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former adviser to D.C. Capital Partners, joined Caliburn's board of directors: 5/2019 ()</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a victory for the movement to end migrant child detention, date on which North Carolina-based Bank of America, Caliburn's chief financier, announced it would no longer work with operators of immigrant detention centers and private prisons: 6/26/2019</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Homestead Contractor Cancels Stock-Investment Plan After New Times Story, Media Scrutiny</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY IANNELLI | MARCH 5, 2019 | 1:20PM</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After scrutiny from New Times and other major media outlets, Caliburn International — the for-profit investment company that, among other projects, runs the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children near Miami — has killed its plans to sell $100 million in shares on the stock market.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The Company is seeking withdrawal of the Registration Statement because it no longer wishes to conduct a public offering of securities at this time," a letter filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission reads.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Caliburn issued a media release this morning stating the company nixed plans to go public because of "market" forces. "Due to variability in the equity markets, we are withdrawing our public offering," CEO Jim Van Dusen stated. "Our business continues to grow, and we could potentially return to the public markets in the future."</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RELATED STORIES</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protest Calls for Closing Homestead Center for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miami Child Migrant Camp Operators Plan $100 Million Stock Offering With Firm Once Tied to John Kelly</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Miami Migrant-Camp Contractor Tied to Iraqi Government Bribery Investigation</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(Renaissance Capital, a Connecticut firm that tracks initial public offerings, or IPOs, first noted the filing on its website today.)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>But Caliburn received national scorn after New Times reported earlier this year that the company was looking to sell stock, in part, on a business model that revolved around detaining as many as 2,350 immigrant and refugee children at a sprawling Miami-Dade compound.</b> Today a group of immigrant-rights activists protested outside the facility and demanded the government stop using for-profit companies to run the center. The facility is the largest of its kind in the United States.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Homestead shelter is, technically, run by one of Caliburn's subsidiaries, the Cape Canaveral-based Comprehensive Health Services. (It previously paid a $3 million medical fraud settlement to the federal government without admitting wrongdoing.) In 2018, the investment firm D.C. Capital Partners purchased Comprehensive Health and three other companies to form Caliburn.<b> </b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Notably, D.C. Capital Partners has significant ties to the federal government. Among many high-level current and former employees, D.C. Capital employed White House Chief of Staff John Kelly until the Intercept exposed his employment in 2017. After that story was published, Kelly quit the firm. The news raised significant questions about the ways in which current and former government employees profit from federal policies they helped create.</b></span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A different story also likely contributed to Caliburn's decisions to withdraw its IPO. Earlier this year, a nonprofit whistleblower firm working with the Daily Beast confirmed that <b>another Caliburn subsidiary, Sallyport Global, was under federal investigation for a massive Iraqi government bribery scheme that allegedly helped pave the way for ISIS to flourish in that country. Through former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Sallyport allegedly offered bribes to government officials in exchange for contracts at Balad Air Base in Iraq</b>. At the time, Comprehensive Health was working as a medical subcontractor at Balad. (Caliburn and Sallyport deny any wrongdoing.)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A New Times reporter toured the Homestead facility earlier this month. Some rooms of the massive complex look like a typical grade school. The cafeteria wouldn't be out of place in any American high school. But other sections aren't so nice. Older children, for example, sleep crammed on prison-like cots inside a warehouse-size room kept at<b> extremely cold temperatures.</b> Children in identical gray sweatsuits mill about the complex; though most of the youngsters seem generally cheerful, they are surveilled at all times and must wear tracking bracelets. Tall cyclone fencing encircles the facility. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The children are not allowed to leave until they are either placed with sponsors or turn 18, at which point they are handcuffed and sent to adult ICE detention centers. When New Times visited the facility last week, officials said the average length of stay was 57 days.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Though officials running the shelter say their goal is to help refugee children transition as quickly as possible into American life, many critics disagree. In a lawsuit filed against the federal government, the Southern Poverty Law Center claims that kids in the facility are being kept locked up as "bait" for their adult, immigrant sponsors. The suit states that one child was so traumatized by his stint in the facility that he began suffering migraines that caused him to scream in agony and resulted in his being taken to a hospital.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier this month, five advocates for young immigrants told the Huffington Post that the facility provided "substandard" care.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jerry Iannelli is a staff writer for Miami New Times. He graduated with honors from Temple University. He then earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He moved to South Florida in 2015.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ref 2</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Caliburn International Corporation is a professional services provider. It serves commercial clients though is primarily a private contractor to the United States federal government, including the<b> Department of Defense and Department of State</b>. The company was formed by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> DC Capital Partners and is currently managed by James Van Dusen, former Chief Financial Officer of Comprehensive Health Services.[2] The board includes former military personnel <b>John Kelly, Anthony C. Zinni, </b>James G. Stavridis, and Kathleen Martin.[3]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Caliburn has received scrutiny for operations by subsidiary companies <b style="">Sallyport Global</b> and Comprehensive Health Services. Anonymous reports from Sallyport employees at Balad Air Base, near Baghdad, include accusations of racism, animal abuse, undue safety risks, and corruption.[4] The company is also being investigated for alleged bribery of Iraqi officials for exclusive contracts.[5] Comprehensive Health Services (CHS) has been criticized for its operations at Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the only for-profit facility for detaining migrant children in the United States.[6] As of May 2019, a non-partisan watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is investigating connections between Kelly's involvement with Trump's child separation policy and current role at Caliburn.[7] CHS also operated at Balad Air Base at the same time as Sallyport.[8</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2018, the company announced plans to sell $100 million shares public stocks in an initial public offering, promising significant growth related to Trump's immgration and border policies<b>, however warning potential investors of risks related to the "politically charged environment." Caliburn withdrew its registration statement for the offering in March 2019 following negative press and scrutiny</b>.[6][9][10]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References[edit]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ "Caliburn International Corp IPO". NASDAQ. Retrieved 2019-05-11.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ Jones, Donovan (2018-10-25). "Caliburn International Begins U.S. IPO Effort". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ "John Kelly joins board of company operating largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ McCullough, Zack Kopplin|Irvin (2018-09-18). "U.S. Paid $1B to Contractor Accused of Bigotry at Iraq Air Base". Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ McCullough, Zack Kopplin|Irvin (2019-02-12). "DOJ Is Investigating Whether U.S. Payoffs to Iraqi Officials Opened the Door for ISIS". Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ Jump up to:a b Welch, Leecia; Law, National Center for Youth. "Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S." NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ "Ethics watchdog files request for documents on John Kelly and shelter operator that hired him". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ Prengel, Kate (2019-05-04). "Caliburn International: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ Armstrong, Gin (2019-02-13). "Wall Street Banks & Former Defense Officials Looking to Cash In on Child Detentions". Eyes on the Ties. Retrieved 2019-05-10.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">^ "Caliburn International Holdings Withdraws Registration Statement" (Press release). Caliburn International. IPO Edge. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-05-12.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">External links[edit]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Caliburn International</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Business data for Caliburn International:SEC filings</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ref 3</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kelly-joins-board-of-caliburn-international-company-operating-largest-unaccompanied-migrant-children-shelter/</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In April, protesters outside the nation's largest facility for unaccompanied migrant children noticed a familiar face enter the massive, fenced site in Homestead, Florida: former White House chief of staff John Kelly. Soon after, a local television station recorded footage of him riding on the back of a golf cart as he toured the grounds.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It wasn't clear why he was there, but Friday, Caliburn International confirmed to CBS News that Kelly had joined its board of directors. Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates Homestead and three other shelters for unaccompanied migrant children in Texas.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prior to joining the Trump administration in January 2017, Kelly had been on the board of advisors of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Caliburn board includes other former high-ranking military personnel, including retired General Anthony C. Zinni, Admiral James G. Stavridis and Rear Admiral Kathleen Martin. The company's portfolio includes work in a variety of defense sectors.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John Kelly at a Trump rally in 2017.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"With four decades of military and humanitarian leadership, in-depth understanding of international affairs and knowledge of current economic drivers around the world, General Kelly is a strong strategic addition to our team," said<b> James Van Dusen, Caliburn's CEO</b>. "Our board remains acutely focused on advising on the safety and welfare of unaccompanied minors who have been entrusted to our care and custody by the Department of Health and Human Services to address a very urgent need in caring for and helping to find appropriate sponsors for these unaccompanied minors."</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kelly joined DC Capital's board in February 2016 and stepped down in January 2017 when he was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security. Kelly switched jobs in July 2017 to become President Trump's chief of staff, a position he left at the end of 2018.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>During Kelly's tenure, the administration pursued ambitious changes to immigration enforcement, and the average length of stay for an unaccompanied migrant child in U.S. custody skyrocketed.</b>&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the past year, <b>Comprehensive Health Services, the only private company operating shelters,</b> became one of the most dominant players in the industry. Last August, it secured three licenses for facilities in Texas, totaling 500 beds, and in December, the Homestead facility began expanding from a capacity of 1,250 beds to 3,200.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Located on several acres of federal land adjacent to an Air Reserve Base, the facility is the nation's only site not subject to routine inspections by state child welfare experts.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Teens sleep in bunk-bed-lined dorm rooms, ranging in size from small rooms that fit 12 younger children to enormous halls shared by as many as 200 17-year-old boys, in rows of beds about shoulder-width apart.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During a tour in February, a program coordinator told CBS News that the older children prefer the cavernous digs. "They say it's like a slumber party," she said.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The days begin at 6 a.m. and follow a strict schedule, as children proceed in single-file lines from building to building, supervised by a staff of more than 2,300.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Under a federal court agreement known as the Flores settlement, unaccompanied migrant children are supposed to be housed in "non-secure" facilities, which means the children cannot be prevented from coming and going as they please. The facility's administrator said that is technically the case in Homestead, but acknowledged that the facility is surrounded by a tall covered fence and monitored by a large team of private security contractors.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The heavy security is one of a slew of issues repeatedly raised by lawyers tasked with monitoring compliance with Flores. They flagged Homestead, as well as a dozen other facilities, in a Dec. 31 letter to the Department of Justice outlining what they say are violations of the agreement.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last October, Caliburn filed paperwork with regulators announcing an IPO, but cancelled those plans in March. On April 14, The Financial Times reported that DC Capital was instead seeking to sell 75 percent of the company. The company did not comment on the reported sale offer.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Federal contract records show Comprehensive received at least $222 million to operate Homestead between July 7, 2018 and April 20, 2019, and could receive much more — up to $341 million in payments between now and November for continued operation of the expanded site.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While Comprehensive and DC Capital appear to have reaped financial benefits through government contracts during and after Kelly's tenure as White House chief of staff, Richard Briffault, a Columbia Law School professor, said Kelly may not have broken any rules.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>"It sounds like he's running between the raindrops. It doesn't sound great, but most likely he's not directly violating any policies,"</b> Briffault told CBS News. Briffault said government officials are barred from benefiting from their involvement in matters that involve specific parties, meaning that while serving at the White House, Kelly could not directly influence any decision to award a contract to a DC Capital company.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Delaney Marsco, ethics counsel at the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, said her first question would be to ask whether Kelly ever consulted ethics officials about any involvement in formulating any policies surrounding unaccompanied minors.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The fact is that when he was in the White House, the government took action that swelled the population of people that were in these facilities, and that benefited his former employer. That's the exact kind of situation that is why we have the ethics clause," Marsco said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Now that he's left the White House, Kelly is barred from lobbying for five years, but is free to return to his old company. During that time, he cannot attempt to influence government policies that might benefit the company.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"This is classic revolving door," Briffault said. "Our system is designed in some ways to have that revolving door. We do assume, and we've been doing this for a long time, that (some public sector officials) are coming from the private sector, and that they'll eventually go back."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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