PLEASANT HILL, Calif. _ California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham knocked on the door of a small child detention facility in the suburbs of San Francisco on Monday, but left disappointed.
Denham, of Turlock, waited about five minutes in silence, repeatedly knocking on the door, before a security guard told him the employees inside had been instructed to not answer the door, not to even speak to him.
The facility, Denham said, was detaining immigrant children ages 13 and younger. He said he was told that there were 25 children inside, and two girls had been separated from their parents. He had been told as recently as Friday that he would be allowed to go in, he said, but the facility changed their tune over the weekend.
