Tent City Housing Migrant Children To Close As Kids Are Released To Sponsors
The Department of Health and Human Services confirms the population at Tornillo, Texas, is down from nearly 3,000 adolescents last month to about 1,500. The camp is due to close at the end of January.
A controversial, government-contracted shelter for migrant children in the West Texas desert will shut down later this month, a result of to the rules that govern the custody of youngsters. Nationwide, the number of children in the government's care has stopped growing and begun to fall. In the last two weeks, some 2,200 child migrants — mostly teenage boys from Central America — have been discharged
