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Rep. Pocan Issues Statement on Homestead Detention Center Closure
October 28, 2019
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the Homestead detention center will close and not have its contract renewed:

Rep. Pocan previsouly questioned Director of DHHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement, Jonathan Hayes, in a Congressional hearing that uncovered the $720,000 daily cost of running the empty detention center.

"The decision for the government to shut down the Homestead D . . .

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