Last Saturday, the Biden administration abruptly closed a temporary facility housing nearly 500 unaccompanied illegal immigrant girls in Houston, Texas, a move allegedly due to the “unbearable” conditions of the facility. The facility is an emergency shelter of the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC), a nonprofit organization focused on disaster services. It’s actually in a warehouse in northern Houston, near the George Bush International Airport. From April 1, NACC opened the shelter as a temporary facility to house unaccompanied girls. Immigrant advocates had raised concern about the shelter’s conditions and questioned that NACC has no prior experience dealing with unaccompanied children. According to the Houston Chronicle, the night before the closing, an adult staffer from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) working at the shelter suddenly died. “[The girls] were more treated like merchandise rather than treated as human beings,” Cesar Espinoza, the executive director of …
Biden Administration Abruptly Closes Texas Migrant Facility Over Alleged ‘Unbearable’ Conditions
April 21, 2021
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