The unaccompanied children arriving in Los Angeles County over the weekend hail from Central America and range between the ages of 7 and 14.
Cots and stuffed animals await unaccompanied immigrant children at a temporary emergency shelter at the Pomona Fairplex in Los Angeles County. Some 250 children will arrive at the facility on May 1. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)
POMONA, Calif. (CN) Two-hundred fifty unaccompanied immigrant children from El Salvador, Guatemala and other Central American countries are set to arrive at a temporary emergency shelter in Los Angeles County on Saturday.
The Pomona Fairplex is the second LA County location to welcome unaccompanied children feeling violence, poverty and other conflicts from their home countries.
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LOS ANGELES On Saturday, May 1, Los Angeles will honor the contributions of immigrants, workers, and those who fight to create a more just society for all. This year marks a new era of possibility in a time of desperately needed change. The work continues under the new administration as the nation enters into what looks to be the phasing down of the COVID-19 pandemic. If it was not clear before, it is clear now that the problems that existed before the pandemic have been exacerbated because of it. The country needs immigration reform, needs to protect workers, and take a giant leap forward towards racial justice.
Long Beach Convention Center opens as temporary facility for unaccompanied migrant children
On a tour of the Long Beach Convention Center, Mayor Robert Garcia speaks in the sleeping quarters set up for migrant children inside Exhibit Hall B.
(Brittany Murray / Pool Photo)
April 22, 2021 6:38 PM PT
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Federal officials on Thursday prepared to receive 150 migrant children at the Long Beach Convention Center, one of several structures in California and other states being repurposed as temporary intake facilities to cope with an overflow of unaccompanied minors at the southern border.
Sleeping areas were set up inside the Convention Center’s exhibit halls, with rows of cots draped with white sheets and stacked with folded blankets and pillows, photos shot by a media pool photographer showed.
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