Worries rising about depression and other issues among migrant teens in Dallas emergency shelter
“The goal is to get those kids out of there as soon as possible,” says lawyer-advocate.
Charter buses carrying migrant teenagers arrive under Federal Protective Service escort at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.(Lola Gomez)
Conditions for about 2,000 migrant teen boys at the temporary emergency shelter in downtown Dallas are worrying advocates and former contract employees.
The boys at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center suffer from a lack of fresh air and sunlight, depression and limited access to phones to call their families. Fights have broken out among the boys as tensions have risen.
Stranded without power, a resident walks along a snow-covered road in Austin, Texas, Feb. 16, 2021. A failed attempt to provide rotating blackouts during Texas historic winter storm left at least nearly 200,000 people without power in single-digits temperatures from the early hours of Feb. 14. (CNS/Isabelle Baldwin)
As families continue to suffer the effects of the winter storm that ravaged Texas and its energy grid two months ago, faith leaders across the state have vowed to hold lawmakers to pass legislation quickly to weatherize the power grid and provide financial relief for repairs. This was man-made not the weather, but the response. Congregants, schools, homeowners, renters were all affected, said Jacqueline Hailey, a minister at New Hope Baptist Church, in Houston, during a press conference April 12. This is still affecting us. We are not going to forget, and we want to ensure that this will never happen again.
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Holding her 6-month-old Juan Jr., Maria Magarin looks at the water damage she’s sustained to her apartment in far northeast Dallas on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Magarin sustained extensive water damage and lost hot water due to the epic snowstorm that hit a few weeks ago. Magarin fears the mold growing on her wet walls will make her young sons sick and that the saggy ceiling in a walk-in closet will collapse.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)