Taxpayers paid millions for migrant kids' shelters that never opened, investigation finds :: WRAL.com
By Tyler Dukes, News & Observer reporter Raleigh, N.C. — A bipartisan U.S. Senate committee this week concluded that the federal government’s failed oversight of a program to shelter unaccompanied migrant children cost taxpayers $32 million for several planned facilities that will never open, including one in North Carolina. The report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was released Tuesday after a year-long probe focusing on two companies, VisionQuest National and New Horizon Group Home. Both firms received multimillion-dollar grants from the federal Departm...
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