Former state Sen. Don Huffines announces he’ll challenge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022 GOP primary
The Dallas businessman says Texans are “out of patience” over “open” border, high property taxes and “corrupt election procedures.”
Former state Sen. Don Huffines, shown at an October 2019 event by opponents of impeaching then-President Donald Trump in Richardson, Texas, announced on Monday that he is running for governor next year.((Robert W. Hart/Special Contributor))
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to include remarks from a Huffines speech in Collin County in February.
AUSTIN Former Texas state Sen. Don Huffines is running for governor, and from the broadsides he launched against two-term Gov. Greg Abbott’s stewardship on Monday, it’s clear the Dallas businessman will try to attack the incumbent Republican from the right.
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The Biden administration said last week that it had gotten better control of the surge of illegal immigrant children crowding immigration facilities at the border.
That’s a true statement. What the administration didn’t bother to mention was the fact that the reason they had better control is that they’re playing a shell game with the illegals, moving them from overcrowded border patrol facilities to shelters operated by HHS. Those shelters in convention centers along the border are now even more crowded than the CBP detention centers they left.
In all, over the past week, more than 21,000 children were living in shelters under government care, leaving the shelters around 80 percent full. A shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas has a capacity of 2,270 and a caseload of 1,990. The San Diego Convention Center’s 1,450 beds are all taken. The Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio is 90 children away from its 2,100 limit and annou
Conditions at Dallas shelter for migrant teens raise questions Biden White House won’t answer
Just because the temporary facilities are better than cramped border cells doesn’t mean they’re adequate.
Federal Protective Service Police arrive to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, March 17, 2021. The convention center serves as an emergency intake site to hold teens who have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border to decrease overcrowding at Customs and Border Protection facilities. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News)(Lola Gomez)
In the scramble to house thousands of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border more than 22,000 in custody as of this week the Biden administration set up more than a dozen temporary emergency shelters across the country, including one at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.
Overcrowded Border Jails Give Way to Packed Migrant Child Shelters
Federal documents indicate that while the Biden administration has cleared migrant children from border detention centers, now shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services are strained.
Children waiting for processing by Border Patrol agents on Thursday in La Joya, Texas.Credit.Adrees Latif/Reuters
May 7, 2021Updated 9:01 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Biden administration officials have insisted that they have gotten better control of a surge of migrant children that has swamped detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
But documents obtained by The New York Times indicate that the problem has moved to other facilities, like convention centers in Dallas, San Diego and Long Beach, Calif., which are nearing capacity as funds for more space are scarce.