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The blame game is in full swing after a shelter for unaccompanied minors was abruptly closed in Houston on Saturday. The 500 teenage girls living in the emergency intake site (EIS) were hastily bussed away from the facility Saturday after an HHS volunteer died Friday night. The Biden administration is releasing few details.
The lack of transparency from HHS and the White House allows imaginations to run wild. HHS opened the EIS at the beginning of April when the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC) stepped up to help HHS ease the overcrowding of shelters at the southern border. The shelter was only open for a little more than two weeks before it abruptly closed without explanation last weekend. The NACC official in charge said the closing was a surprise to him and he was not notified in advance by HHS. Also factoring into the story is the fact that an HHS volunteer died the night before the teen girls were moved out.
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The Biden administration over the weekend shuttered a Houston warehouse that housed unaccompanied migrant children following allegations that the nonprofit organization running the site failed to provide adequate living conditions for hundreds of young girls, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
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The Biden administration abruptly closed a Houston-based warehouse where government contractors were reportedly holding nearly 500 unaccompanied children in conditions described as abhorrent.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced over the weekend that it was shuttering one of a dozen emergency facilities where its Administration for Children and Families s Office of Refugee Resettlement had contracted the National Association of Christian Churches nonprofit organization to hold nearly 20,000 boys and girls who came across the southern border without a parent.
The teenage girls held inside were at times forced to use plastic bags as toilets because there were not enough adults to walk them to a bathroom, according to ABC News. Girls spent most of the days on makeshift cots and rarely got outside. Stacks of boxes were used to create rooms inside, where the girls were packed into tight spaces, risking their safety, given the coronavirus pandemic.
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