US opens new mass facility in Texas for migrant children

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

US opens new mass facility in Texas for migrant children

By GARANCE BURKE
June 6, 2019

The federal government is opening a new mass facility to hold migrant children in Texas and considering detaining hundreds more youths on three military bases around the country, adding up to 3,000 new beds to the already overtaxed system.

The new emergency facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, will hold as many as 1,600 teens in a complex that once housed oil field workers on government-leased land near the border, said Mark Weber, a spokesman for Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The agency is also weighing using Army and Air Force bases in Georgia, Montana and Oklahoma to house an additional 1,400 kids in the coming weeks, amid the influx of children traveling to the U.S. alone. Most of the children crossed the border without their parents, escaping violence and corruption in Central America, and are held in government custody while authorities determine if they can be released to relatives or family friends.

All the new facilities will be considered temporary emergency shelters, so they won’t be subject to state child welfare licensing requirements, Weber said. In January, the government shut down an unlicensed detention camp in the Texas desert under political pressure, and another unlicensed facility called Homestead remains in operation in the Miami suburbs.

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[lapfog_1]

1. so i guessed that any facility already in place

would be visible on google maps so I went looking.

I think I found it... 45 or so single wide modular homes... probably with 1 or possibly 2 bath rooms each, and likely with bunk beds in an open arrangement (no walls inside except for the bathroom). Each holding 30 to 35 kids.

Intersection of Bradshaw road and 186 south and west of Carrizo Springs.

Hard to tell if these units have any sort of AC other than perhaps a window mounted unit.

Add the fencing with barb wire and some gun towers and you would have a German POW camp from WWII.