Whistleblowers say they were told to downplay COVID-19 outbreak at Fort Bliss migrant children shelter
by Jake Dima, Breaking News Reporter |
| July 28, 2021 07:33 PM
A pair of whistleblowers who briefly worked at a Fort Bliss facility in El Paso, Texas, said they were instructed by top brass to "play down" a child migrant COVID-19 outbreak amid "gross mismanagement" of tent facilities housing hundreds of unaccompanied minors.
Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, identified as two "volunteer detailees at the Fort Bliss Emergency Intake Site" between April and June, said the Department of Health and Human Services instructed them and others to "make everything sound positive" and "play down anything negative" to the media. This came as at least 10 aircraft hangar-sized tents housing between 500 and 1,000 migrant children were plagued with a number of problems, including a rampant spread of COVID-19, according to a complaint from the Government Accountability Project released Wednesday.
The site is operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the HHS Department, charged with the care of migrant children awaiting immigration proceedings.
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