Tent City Housing Migrant Children To Close As Kids Are Released To Sponsors

A controversial, government-contracted shelter for migrant children in the West Texas desert will shut down later this month, a result of sweeping changes 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 from shelters and allowed to join family already in the U.S.

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• OFFICIALS FACE DEADLINE TO MOVE 1,500 CHILDREN FROM “TENT CITY”