Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Wednesday that state officials will begin an investigation into charges of sexual abuse and other neglect at an immigration facility in San Antonio which is housing unaccompanied minors.
The Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio was set up as an emergency facility to house unaccompanied minors. Officials are investigating three separate incident reports of abuse.
Abbott has called for the federal government to close the facility in light of the allegations.
During a press conference on Wednesday, he said, “This facility is a health and safety nightmare. The Biden administration is now presiding over the abuse of children. To end this abuse, the Biden administration must immediately shut down this facility.”
Currently, the facility is housing roughly 1,300 individuals.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is demanding Joe Biden close a Texas border facility after allegations that children are being sexually assaulted.https://t.co/sUMEL1oNW4
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 8, 2021
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Competing Stories Of The Reports Of Abuse
Bexar County Commissioner Rebeca Clay-Flores claims that she had visited the facility several times and saw the children being well cared for.
Clay-Flores stated, “What I saw when I went in there on several occasions, it was well-staffed, the children are very happy and very excited to be here. This is not a political issue, this is about children who deserve protection from adults.”
Gov. Abbott said that the claims were reported to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and also the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Abbott did not know the identities of the alleged assault victims nor did he provide any other details surrounding the matter.
In addition to claims of sexual assault, there are reports that some children were not eating throughout the day, and that those that had tested positive for COVID-19 were not being separated from those that had tested negative, and that the facility is understaffed.
Biden opened the borders & failed to plan for the influx of unaccompanied minors.
Now he must respond to allegations of child abuse & neglect on his watch.
DPS & TX Rangers are investigating.
The administration must close the facility & protect these children. pic.twitter.com/s1chzDQYlx
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 8, 2021
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Biden Said He Would Reunite Migrant Families, No Reunions Yet
High on the list of Joe Biden campaign promises was to reunite immigrant families that had been separated under the Trump administration.
Senior Department of Homeland Security officials say that no such reunions have occurred, and blamed the Trump administration for “incomplete” information.
In February, Biden announced that a task force led by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas would be charged with identifying all the families that had been separated.
JUST IN – The 500 unaccompanied migrant children have arrived to Freeman Coliseum, where they will be housed. https://t.co/PCX4lfN6b6 pic.twitter.com/9At89aMxUj
— Alejandra Guzman (@AlejandraG_TV) March 30, 2021
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Border Crisis At Record Levels
In a report from the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the U.S. government picked up roughly 19,000 unaccompanied children coming across the U.S. border in March.
Officials say it is the largest number ever recorded.
According to the CBP, 18,890 children were picked up. The previous records were 11,475 in May 2019 and 10,620 in June of 2014. Some of the children traveling alone are as young as three.
President Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to focus on the “root causes” of illegal immigration to the southern border.
Neither Biden or Harris has no immediate plans to visit the U.S. southern border.
Everywhere but the border: USELESS Kamala Harris has visited a bakery, a water plant with Newsom and cooked a roast pork at her LA home in the 14 days since Biden made her immigration 'czar' – and still hasn't held a news conferencehttps://t.co/KslXQqEcgi
— ?? TRUMPSusie ??#NotMyPresident + I Block Dems (@gs777gs777) April 7, 2021
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