Biden administration converts oil field man camp into shelter for migrant children
The oil worker lodge-turned-shelter in Pecos, Texas, is among 15 emergency intake sites the Biden administration is using to house migrant children.
Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times
Published
12:19 pm UTC Apr. 23, 2021
PECOS, Texas – Maria Baeza Valeriano opened her front door to the view of a closed-down hotel and an oil workers’ camp, where migrant boys played soccer behind a shaded chain-link fence.
“I feel so bad for them, for being all alone,” said Baeza Valeriano, who, in her 80s, is a mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of eight. “It’s a lot, that the parents let their children go. I wouldn’t let go of my children for anything.”