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| New Texas detention center for migrant children to close | New Texas detention center for migrant children to close |
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| The not-for-profit organization that operates a brand new US government detention facility for migrant youths says the last teenagers detained there will leave by the end of the week – just a few weeks after the center was opened and the media were taken on tours. | The not-for-profit organization that operates a brand new US government detention facility for migrant youths says the last teenagers detained there will leave by the end of the week – just a few weeks after the center was opened and the media were taken on tours. |
| Kevin Dinnin, the CEO of contractor BCFS, said on Tuesday that the facility in Carrizo Springs, in rural Texas, close to the US-Mexico border is expected to be empty by Thursday. | Kevin Dinnin, the CEO of contractor BCFS, said on Tuesday that the facility in Carrizo Springs, in rural Texas, close to the US-Mexico border is expected to be empty by Thursday. |
| New Texas child detention center is clean and bright – but it's still a jail | New Texas child detention center is clean and bright – but it's still a jail |
| It’s less than two weeks since the Guardian was given a lengthy tour of the center, with the government keen to demonstrate its safe, clean facilities. This was in contrast to appalling conditions for babies, children and adults being detained in border patrol stations after crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully, which shocked visiting experts so much they went public. | It’s less than two weeks since the Guardian was given a lengthy tour of the center, with the government keen to demonstrate its safe, clean facilities. This was in contrast to appalling conditions for babies, children and adults being detained in border patrol stations after crossing the US-Mexico border unlawfully, which shocked visiting experts so much they went public. |
| At the time of that visit, just under 200 teens aged 13 to 17 were held at the new Carrizo Springs secure facility, most having arrived from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The children had either entered the US alone or been separated from the adults who accompanied them across the border, and they had all been transferred from other facilities. | At the time of that visit, just under 200 teens aged 13 to 17 were held at the new Carrizo Springs secure facility, most having arrived from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The children had either entered the US alone or been separated from the adults who accompanied them across the border, and they had all been transferred from other facilities. |
| The total number of children had been expected to grow to 1,300 over the coming weeks, all housed in what the government terms a “temporary emergency influx facility”, which was expected to be kept open into 2020. | The total number of children had been expected to grow to 1,300 over the coming weeks, all housed in what the government terms a “temporary emergency influx facility”, which was expected to be kept open into 2020. |
| But the closure was abruptly confirmed on Tuesday, as first reported by Vice. | But the closure was abruptly confirmed on Tuesday, as first reported by Vice. |
| The US Department of Health and Human Services opened the facility just a month ago. | |
| In response to a request for comment, the office of communications for the Health Department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF) agency said: “We have no update on Carrizo Springs at this time.” | |
| Carrizo Springs opened at the site of a former oil field camp and was supposed to help HHS take in children who were otherwise detained by the US border patrol in sometimes squalid conditions. | |
| But the facility opened just as border crossings have fallen, as a result of a crackdown by the US and Mexico on migrants traveling through Mexico and applying for asylum in the US. HHS has also sped up its processing of legal cases, in order to release children from detention faster, so they can join sponsoring families in the US while their cases proceed through the immigration system | But the facility opened just as border crossings have fallen, as a result of a crackdown by the US and Mexico on migrants traveling through Mexico and applying for asylum in the US. HHS has also sped up its processing of legal cases, in order to release children from detention faster, so they can join sponsoring families in the US while their cases proceed through the immigration system |
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