A Houston-area “migrant” facility holding up to 500
illegal alien children was abruptly closed on Saturday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to several local reports. According to the local ABC News affiliate, a flurry of activity was seen at the shelter just before HHS announced the kids would be immediately transferred elsewhere or reunited with family or sponsors, just two weeks after the facility first opened.
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An HHS official released a statement on Saturday.
“Today, HHS announced that all of the children in HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) care at the Emergency Intake Site (EIS) for Unaccompanied Children at the National Association of Christian Churches site in Houston, Texas, (NACC Houston) will be immediately unified with sponsors or transferred to an appropriate ORR facility.”
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Teenage migrant girls are loaded into vans to be transported out of the National Association of Christian Churches facility, on Saturday, April 17, 2021, in Houston. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)
President Joe Biden finally called the situation on America s southern border a crisis for the first time on Saturday, making that comment during an impromptu conversation with reporters in Delaware.
He made the admission while he was defending his administration s new decision to let more refugees into the country. To clarify, the refugee program is about people who come from around the globe, not just the southern border, and many are fleeing religious or political persecution.
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Facility for teen immigrant girls in Houston closes, hundreds of unaccompanied minors moved
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Xavier Becerra testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
By: Scripps National , The Associated Press
Posted at 12:17 PM, Apr 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-19 15:17:08-04
HOUSTON â The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services removed about 450 immigrant girls from a facility in Houston over the weekend, closing the site.
HHS said the girls were removed from the Emergency Intake Site for Unaccompanied Children operated by the National Association of Christian Churches where they were housed since April 1.