Carbajal Visits Texas Border Camp Holding 766 Children
Pushes for Federal Government to Expedite Reunification Process
Representative Salud Carbajal made a visit to Carrizo Springs, Texas, on Wednesday, where a camp about 20 miles from the U.S./Mexico border holds 766 children between the ages of 13 and 17 who entered the United States without a parent. He told pool reporters accompanying the group of five members of Congress: “We don’t need to have children in a facility like this. We need to expedite the process to make sure that those children are united with their guardians, their family members, and taken out of this facility as soon as possible.”
The Biden administration had been working “frantically” to provide more beds and bring staffing up to speed in the past two months, Carbajal said during a conference call on Thursday, but the children, mostly boys, were still there way too long. He had visited the camps set up in Tornillo, Texas, and Alamogordo, New Mexico, by the Trump administration, and unlike the tent cities at the other facilities, he said Carrizo Springs had buildings, dormitories with bunk beds, and bathrooms.
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