Texas Lawmakers Get Update on Health and Welfare of Children from Central America

[TexasTowelie]

Texas lawmakers got an update yesterday on children who’ve crossed the southern border illegally over the last several months.

Officials expressed concern about the unaccompanied children's health and welfare at a hearing of a Texas House Child Protection Committee hearing.

The number of unaccompanied children crossing the border has been dropping over the summer. About 54,000 have crossed the border, and 4,000 of them have settled in Texas, so far.

The state has asked U.S. Homeland Security for names and addresses of all people at detention facilities in cases of infectious diseases.

Read more: http://kut.org/post/texas-lawmakers-get-update-health-and-welfare-children-central-america

[DhhD]

1. In a earlier reply, the law about detainees, says that they can be deported immediately without a

hearing, if they are in bad health. Apparently the Attorney General of the US, can withhold information about minors.