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Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 12, 2018 04:57pm |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | Franco Ordoñez |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 12, 2018 09:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Trump administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas to shelter the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being held in detention.
The Department of Health and Human Services will visit Fort Bliss, a sprawling Army base near El Paso in the coming weeks to look at a parcel of land where the administration is considering building a tent city to hold between 1,000 and 5,000 children, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the plans.
The aggressive plan comes at the same time that child shelters are filling up with more children who have been separated from their parents. The number of migrant children held in U.S. government custody without their parents has increased more than 20 percent as Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen rolled out the administration's new policy zero tolerance policy that separates children from their parents who now face prosecution. |
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