DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The league of United Latin American Citizens is working with Dallas Catholic Charities, and other non-profit groups to find homes for the thousands of migrant teenagers being temporarily held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.
The convention center is one of several sites set up across Texas, and around the country, to hold migrant children amid a current surge at the border.
While speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Domingo Garcia, LULAC National President issued an official request of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to authorize the Texas Rangers to apply for an “S” visa with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on behalf of all arriving immigrant teens. He also asked that the Secretary of Homeland Security provide the teens temporary legal status and unite them within three days with family members. Additionally, LULAC demanded, FEMA to allow community groups and the media access to all children detention centers in the country in the next 48 hours.
“The Flores settlement requires the Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, to move unaccompanied minors from an ICE detention center to a more appropriate surrounding for children,” said Garcia. “By engaging the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services with federal Health and Human Services, it is the hope of LULAC that these children will more quickly be transferred from a detention facility to a family environment.”
Volunteers are currently working with the Federal government to place the migrant teenagers with existing family members or with foster families.
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