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At least 150 refugee children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border are expected to arrive in Erie late Tuesday or early Wednesday to receive temporary shelter, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson.
The unaccompanied children, who will range in age from 7 to 12 years old, will be housed at a dormitory owned by the Pennsylvania International Academy, located adjacent to the ErieBank Sports Park in Summit Township.
Six children will be assigned to each room in the 648-capacity dormitory, as more children are expected in the future.
At 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, a handful of officers from the Federal Protective Service, a uniformed police division within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, were seen outside the facility and employing police tape to block off a side of the parking lot.
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Young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, on March 30, 2021.
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At least 150 refugee children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border are expected to arrive in Erie late Tuesday or early Wednesday to receive temporary shelter, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson.
The unaccompanied children, who will range in age from 7-12 years old, will be housed at a dormitory owned by the Pennsylvania International Academy, located adjacent to the ErieBank Sports Park in Summit Township.