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More than 4,300 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone are being held in what official and inside sources say are dangerous and distressing conditions at an emergency shelter at Fort Bliss.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services erected an emergency intake site for unaccompanied migrant children on the Army base in El Paso nine weeks ago. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso), child advocates and federal and contract workers inside the facility say the site is being poorly managed and children are suffering.
They say children are languishing for weeks without speaking to a caseworker who can reunite them with a sponsor in the U.S.; that COVID-19, other infectious diseases and lice have grown rampant; that some contract caregivers lack adequate training to work with the children, aged 13 to 17, temporarily housed there.
The latest count at Starr now shows about 50 are being cared for at the facility. Starr has a capacity ceiling of 224 kids. So far, only boys have been housed at Starr.