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.
Screen image via KHOU-TV of evacuation buses.
Buses arriving in early April:
Good morning, unaccompanied migrant children have started arriving at the NACC in North Houston.
3 buses arrived at 5:50 am this morning
3 more came around 2:20 this morning
The first bus arrived on Friday just after 6pm
The facility is providing everything for the children.
