A group of 500 unaccompanied migrant children seeking asylum is arriving at an emergency shelter site at Fort Bliss in Texas on Tuesday night as immigration officials step up their efforts to address a surge that has strained capacity at existing immigration facilities near the southern border.
The military base is one of several “emergency intake sites” established by the Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to provide temporary housing for…
