4,000 Migrant Kids Are Now in Limbo Due to Texas Governor s Order
4,000 Migrant Kids Are Now in Limbo Due to Texas Governor s Order
Greg Abbott s political showmanship will put migrant kids back into shelters he once called a health and safety nightmare
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A little less than two months ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a hastily called press conference outside an emergency shelter in San Antonio, where he delivered a blistering indictment of the federal government’s failure to properly care for the migrant children held there. “This facility,” Abbott said, “is a health and safety nightmare.” He called for the Freeman Coliseum shelter to be shut down immediately, and for the children housed inside to be moved to other federally operated facilities, presumably those run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, where, Abbott said, “the federal government has the space, personnel and resources to ensure their safety.”
The latest count at Starr now shows about 50 are being cared for at the facility. Starr has a capacity ceiling of 224 kids. So far, only boys have been housed at Starr.
here at donna, the number of migrant children and teens down from its april 2nd peak of about 3,700, when it was so overcrowded, kids wrapped in those foil blankets were forced to take turns sleeping on the floor. today just 343 in custody. the dhs secretary touring the facility today, saying children are now only here for about 24 hours on average, down from an average of nearly six days i. the challenge remains. it is not behind us. but our plan of execution is well under way, and the results are compelling. reporter: yet significant challenges remain. one thing that we were told that was pretty shocking is that as long as they re in there, nobody is tested for covid. migrant kids are covid tested just before being transferred from here to shelters run by health and human services. and the number of children in and teens in hhs care waiting to be placed with relatives or sponsors has more than doubled
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Foster parents in California are being asked if they can take in unaccompanied Central American children who have recently crossed the southern border.
Automated emails and phone calls from the state’s Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) have asked foster parents if they can take anywhere from one to 26 or more children.
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The number of kids crowded into Border Patrol detention facilities, what came to be known as “kids in cages” during the Trump years, has dropped by 45%. However, that still leaves more than 3,000 kids in the facilities at this moment and those that remain are still being held much longer than the law allows.
As of Sunday, there were 3,130 children in the custody of CBP, an agency not intended to care for children for prolonged periods of time, marking a drop from the peak 5,767 on March 28 since the government started providing data, indicating progress in alleviating Border Patrol stations.