Recently Opened Houston Shelter for 500 Teen Migrant Girls Abruptly Closed and Evacuated After Volunteer Dies Amid Literal Warehousing of Children

A shelter for migrant teenage girls with capacity for 500 children that opened at the start of April in Houston, Texas was abruptly shut down Saturday by the federal government which moved to evacuate the approximately 450 girls living in crowded literal warehouse conditions after a volunteer died there Friday night. The shelter was run by the National Association of Christian Churches in Houston. Journalist Lomi Kriel posted about the abrupt move and death of the volunteer, “.@HHSGov is suddenly closing an emergency influx site in Houston just weeks after it opened, reunifying 130 of the 450 minor girls with family and transferring the rest to other ORR facilities. It did not say what had prompted this.”-- More...