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The blame game is in full swing after a shelter for unaccompanied minors was abruptly closed in Houston on Saturday. The 500 teenage girls living in the emergency intake site (EIS) were hastily bussed away from the facility Saturday after an HHS volunteer died Friday night. The Biden administration is releasing few details.
The lack of transparency from HHS and the White House allows imaginations to run wild. HHS opened the EIS at the beginning of April when the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC) stepped up to help HHS ease the overcrowding of shelters at the southern border. The shelter was only open for a little more than two weeks before it abruptly closed without explanation last weekend. The NACC official in charge said the closing was a surprise to him and he was not notified in advance by HHS. Also factoring into the story is the fact that an HHS volunteer died the night before the teen girls were moved out.
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The Biden administration over the weekend shuttered a Houston warehouse that housed unaccompanied migrant children following allegations that the nonprofit organization running the site failed to provide adequate living conditions for hundreds of young girls, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Print this article An asylum-seeking migrant from Honduras holds his son as they awake at sunrise next to others who took refuge near a baseball field after crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. from Mexico, in La Joya, Texas, March 19, 2021.
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The Biden Administration shut down a migrant facility in Houston, Texas after the disaster relief non-profit running its operations was accused of providing inadequate living conditions.
The site, which was opened to help accommodate the influx of unaccompanied migrants arriving at the southern border, housed hundreds of girls aged 13-17.
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HHS plans to relocate the nearly 500 girls to other nearby facilities, families, or sponsors.
A Houston-area “migrant” facility holding up to 500
illegal alien children was abruptly closed on Saturday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to several local reports. According to the local ABC News affiliate, a flurry of activity was seen at the shelter just before HHS announced the kids would be immediately transferred elsewhere or reunited with family or sponsors, just two weeks after the facility first opened.
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An HHS official released a statement on Saturday.
“Today, HHS announced that all of the children in HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) care at the Emergency Intake Site (EIS) for Unaccompanied Children at the National Association of Christian Churches site in Houston, Texas, (NACC Houston) will be immediately unified with sponsors or transferred to an appropriate ORR facility.”
Joe Biden s administration shut down a Houston warehouse serving as a facility for unaccompanied migrant children amid allegations that nonprofit organizations running the site failed to provide adequate living conditions for the hundreds of girls being housed there.
ABC News reports the warehouse was opened by the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this month in response to the surge of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the southern border, but closed over the weekend due to poor living conditions, sources confirmed.
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ABC News showed buses removing more than 100 girls from the facility on Saturday (April 17), which had been run by a Houston-based nonprofit, the National Association of Christian Churches (NACC), that had no previous experience housing unaccompanied migrant children prior to the facility s opening.