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More than 1,300 migrant children being cared for at Freeman Coliseum
The number of children at Freeman rose from 500 to 1,370 over the last week
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Volunteers still needed to help migrant children being housed at Freeman Coliseum
SAN ANTONIO – The number of unaccompanied migrant children being housed at the Freeman Expo Center has increased from 500 to 1,370, federal and county officials said Tuesday.
Initially, 500 males ages 13-17 were bused on March 29 from El Paso to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Emergency Intake Site in San Antonio.
As of Monday, 1,370 children were being cared for at the EIS, where they are eventually released to a sponsor or transferred to an appropriate HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter for longer-term care.
It could temporarily accommodate up to 1,000 children for a period of 90 to 120 days.
Convention centers in San Diego and Dallas have already been converted into similar shelters in recent weeks, and the federal government has declared that it would like to proceed with designating the 45,000-square-foot Long Beach Convention Center as an additional emergency shelter site.
The Long Beach City Council is expected to approve the proposal Tuesday. Long Beach has a proud and long history of welcoming and helping immigrants and refugees. From our Cambodian community to the work done by our churches and faith organizations, we have led with compassion and kindness, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said.
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Children and families have been fleeing to the U.S. for years, particularly from Mexico and the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Yet aspects of the current situation are different from the past. And whether more individuals are attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border “than have been in the last 20 years, as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas predicted, remains to be seen.
U.S. Border Patrol detains tens of thousands of the families and children who try to cross U.S. borders every year.