Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling on the federal government to close a migrant children facility in San Antonio after receiving abuse and understaffing complaints.
Greg Abbott said on Wednesday that complaints include sexual assault, understaffing, not being fed enough food, and failure to separate COVID-19 positive children from others, according to a KSAT report.
The Texas governor noted that the complaints are credible and were made to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
Abbott did not give additional details about who provided the information but said it was from at least one or more people who have been inside the facility.
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Nearly 30% of encounters on the US-Mexico border in March were repeat crossers, administration says
Nearly 30% of migrants encountered at the US-Mexico border in March had previously tried to cross, the Biden administration says.
Overall, US Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 172,000 people attempting to cross the US-Mexico border in March, a 71% increase from February, according to administration officials who briefed reporters with the agency’s official totals. That figure includes repeat crossers.
“The levels of flow pose a challenge to Border Patrol, but the high level of recidivism means that we can’t look at those flows as individual people. It’s often the same people coming back through,” an administration official said.