Homestead Detention Camp
In collaboration with the American Friends Service Committee of Florida and Earthjustice, I co-direct a project documenting environmental violence at the Homestead Temporary Shelter, which was the largest detention camp for migrant children in the U.S. between 2016 and 2019. Our research found that detained children were exposed to toxic waste from a nearby military Superfund site and to levels of noise associated with developmental harm from the adjacent military base runway. Our report was used by organizers in their successful campaign to shut down the facility in 2019 and keep it closed in 2021.
In 2026, we won a Freedom of Information Act request lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Air Force that required them to turn over more than 20,000 pages of records related to the Homestead detention camp.
Selected Media Coverage
WUSF NPR (2026)
Insight Climate News (2026)
Prism (2022)
Vice (2021)
Mother Jones (2021)
Hyperallergic (2021)
The New York Times (2021)
The Miami Herald (2019)
Miami New Times (2019)
