HHS: Military facilities won’t house border kids
Source: Politico
Hoping to save money and political angst, the Obama administration is pulling back from using military facilities to provide temporary shelter for child migrants crossing the border from Central America.
The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it will suspend these operations within the next two months, beginning with Fort Sill in Oklahoma as early as the end of this week. The two remaining facilities — Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and Naval Base Ventura County in California — are expected to phased out over a two- to eight-week period.
The military facilities have been a crucial but often very expensive stopgap for HHS in managing the crisis, in which the department was flooded with nearly 20,000 newly arrived children in the months of May and June alone.
More than 7,700 of these unaccompanied migrants were cared for at the three posts. But after the border crossings dropped off in July, HHS hopes to manage with more permanent shelters that are more efficient in terms of costs.
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