From reports of kids fainting to transfers in the middle of the night, the place is more like a jail than a shelter, insiders say.
Steven Monacelli
Updated May. 08, 2021 4:07AM ET / Published May. 08, 2021 12:00AM ET
DALLAS—Fears that kids are going hungry, and even fainting for that reason. A lack of mental-health and educational resources. Accounts of transfers in the dead of night without warning.
These are among the allegations leveled by a handful of volunteers fed up with what they see as jail-like conditions at a migrant youth facility operated out of the Dallas Convention Center. It’s just one of several federal shelters set up in recent months to house a significant jump in the number of unaccompanied young people apprehended at the southern border of the United States.
In other words, it’s not a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detention center. But volunteers say it still seems an awful lot like these kids are behind bars.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kids-go-hungry-in-insane-health-and-human-services-dallas-migrant-shelter-run-by-culmen-volunteers-say
