Live Updates Ahead of Tonight’s First Democratic Debate – The New York Times

Hours before taking the debate stage, Ms. Warren traveled to Homestead, a South Florida facility for unaccompanied migrant children that is often referred to as a detention center.

Homestead has become a symbol, in some political and immigration activist circles, of the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies, which once officially included separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ms. Warren climbed up on a stepladder to wave to children inside the facility.

“These were children who were being marched like little soldiers, like little prisoners, from one place to another,” she told reporters.

She is one of several presidential candidates to pledge to visit the facility.

Ms. Klobuchar and Jane Sanders, the wife of Bernie Sanders, also visited later Wednesday. Mr. Swalwell was there earlier this week and Mr. O’Rourke has said he will visit Thursday, and a host of contenders, including Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg, are expected there Friday.

Patricia Mazzei contributed reporting from Homestead, Fla.

What’s happening on the ground in Miami?

How many candidates are here in Florida for the first Democratic debates? So many that one, former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, was spotted on Wednesday getting asked about whether he was picking up press credentials.

“I’m a candidate,” replied Mr. Hickenlooper, according to NPR’s Scott Detrow who was there. (Something similar happened to Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul in 2015.)