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A group of Florida faith leaders is seeking access to immigrant detention centers to provide spiritual care.

State officials have so far denied the clergy access to the facilities, they say.

The faith leaders delivered a letter signed by 113 clergy members to the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

A group of ministers, priests and rabbis from across Florida want to tend to the spiritual needs of immigrants at s, but say the state won't let them.

On Oct. 9, nine faith leaders delivered a letter signed by 113 members of the clergy to state emergency management director Kevin Guthrie requesting access to provide chaplaincy services to detainees. The runs the Everglades facility.

Guthrie, however, was out of the office; he was at a National Emergency Management

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