Shelter that Houses Immigrant Children to be Shut Down [MiamiHerald.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/29/174:00 AM

South Dade’s temporary shelter for unaccompanied minors will close on Saturday, federal officials say, and those children who have not been placed with a relative or sponsor in the U.S. will be transferred to a permanent shelter elsewhere.

The temporary site, which housed hundreds of immigrant children at the former Job Corps facility near Homestead Air Reserve Base, opened as a shelter in June 2016. It took in kids ages 13 to 17 who were detained while crossing the Mexican border without their parents. Most were trying to escape danger and poverty in their home countries in Central America.

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