Trump’s Humanity: Migrant Children Moved in Darkness to Texas Tent City

Local Editor

In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.

Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room.

They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases.

The mass transfer is part of the administration’s attempts to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children.

More than 1,600 kids have been shipped to West Texas so far as the mass reshuffling is underway.

An immigration jail in US engaged in strapping children to chairs and placing mesh bags over their heads, a report says.

But in the rows of sand-colored tents in Tornillo, Tex., children in groups of 20, separated by gender, sleep lined up in bunks. There is no school: The children are given workbooks that they have no obligation to complete. Access to legal services is limited.

These midnight voyages are playing out across the country, as the federal government struggles to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children — the largest population ever — whose numbers have increased more than fivefold since last year.

The tent city in Tornillo is unregulated, except for guidelines created by the Department of Health and Human Services. For example, schooling is not required there, as it is in regular migrant children shelters.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team