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An emergency shelter for migrant boys in Dallas has reduced its population to about 200 and is expected to close as early as this week or next week after.
Dallas’ Emergency Shelter For Unaccompanied Minors From Southern Border Set To Shut Down By End Of Month Syndicated Local – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Dallas emergency shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center for unaccompanied minors picked up at the Southern Border is set to shut down by the end of the month.
Some 2,200 teenaged boys were moved there in March, but since then, that number has declined significantly, to 793, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The shelter was established to alleviate the massive influx of children crossing the Mexico border without parents.
Worries rising about depression and other issues among migrant teens in Dallas emergency shelter
“The goal is to get those kids out of there as soon as possible,” says lawyer-advocate.
Charter buses carrying migrant teenagers arrive under Federal Protective Service escort at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.(Lola Gomez)
Conditions for about 2,000 migrant teen boys at the temporary emergency shelter in downtown Dallas are worrying advocates and former contract employees.
The boys at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center suffer from a lack of fresh air and sunlight, depression and limited access to phones to call their families. Fights have broken out among the boys as tensions have risen.