CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All minors at a massive tent camp for migrant children in Tornillo, Texas, have been have been placed with vetted sponsors, an official with the contractor that operates the facility for the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday[1-11-19-]. The release of the last children at the controversial desert facility comes less than two months after HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson issued a warning about the camp’s ‘serious safety and health vulnerabilities,’ including a lack of criminal background checks for staff and a ‘dangerously low number of clinicians.’ Tornillo, a stretch of federal land selected by the Trump administration in June to temporarily shelter unaccompanied migrant children, housed nearly 3,000 minors at its peak. The vast majority of the children have been placed with sponsors, and about 300 moved to other facilities while still in the sponsorship process, the official with BCFS, which operates the camp, told CNN on Friday.”
–Ray Sanchez and Dianne Gallagher, “All migrant children transferred from controversial Texas tent camp,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 11, 2019 3:28 pm