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Federal Officials Raise Concerns About White House Pressure to Move Migrant Children
Drastic measures under consideration as Customs and Border Protection pushes to move migrant kids to Army bases, questionable facilities Detained children sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas / AP
April 1, 2021 7:30 AM
Federal officials are raising concerns about rising pressure from the White House to relocate unaccompanied minors to holding sites that those officials warn could pose a danger to the children and violate a 1997 legal settlement that required the government to house minors in safe and sanitary facilities.
Father Giancarlo Ruggieri celebrates a livestreamed Easter Mass in San Giorgio Ionico, Italy, on April 12, 2020. (CNS photo/Alessandro Garofalo, Reuters)
In a Lenten season with a possible end of the Covid-19 pandemic in sight, I remain skeptical of claims that restrictions on how many people can gather inside a church for Mass violate religious liberty, an argument made in the Diocese of Brooklyn’s recent lawsuit against the State of New York. (The U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of the diocese last November, and in February it sided with other churches in a similar case in California.) This is because I am aware of how recent, how uncommon and how privileged the custom of weekly Mass attendance is. For centuries, and for all sorts of reasons, weekly (or even monthly) Mass was simply not an option for most Catholics. In many parts of the world, it still isn’t.
Camp Roberts in northern San Luis Obispo County is being considered as a possible emergency intake site for unaccompanied migrant children, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Biden faces big challenges as he rolls back Trump immigration policy March 29, 2021 12:24 PM CDT By John Bachtell
A migrant child holds onto a woman s arm as they wait to be processed by a humanitarian group after being released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at a bus station, Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Brownsville, Texas. Team Brownsville, a humanitarian group, is helping migrants seeking asylum with clothing and food as well as transportation to the migrant s final destination in the U.S. | Julio Cortez/AP
Housing facility for unaccompanied migrant children to open in Houston KHOU 11 Staff
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An emergency housing facility for unaccompanied migrant children will be opening in Houston, according to a CBS immigration reporter.
The location of the facility has not been officially revealed, but it s described as being a church hall typically used for large gatherings. It will house up to 500 migrant girls who have been taken into custody without parents or legal guardians. It s unclear when children will start arriving at the facility.
On Thursday, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee toured the National Association of Christian Churches disaster response warehouse in north Houston, where the girls are expected to be housed. She said it is clean, has beds, a kitchen for hot meals and showers. She said she believes it is a good place for the girls to be until they can be reunited with a family member.