Feds to house migrants at facility in Artesia (NM)
Source: Albuquerque Journal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — LAS CRUCES – New Mexico will soon be playing a role in housing families caught crossing the border into the United States from Central America.
Overwhelmed by an influx of Central American migrants in south Texas, the U.S. government has been transferring families with children to other sectors including El Paso and Nogales and letting them go – with orders requiring them to appear at an immigration court at a later date.
Every weekend for the past two weeks, two government planes have landed in nearby El Paso, carrying a total of 270 families from Central America – all needing food, clothes and shelter.
On Friday, the Obama administration announced it plans to open new detention centers to hold immigrant families, including using a federal law enforcement training facility in Artesia to temporarily hold detained families. It’s not clear when the new detention centers will become available.
Read more: http://www.abqjournal.com/418885/news/feds-to-house-migrants-at-facility-in-artesia.html
Also reported by the AP, Arizona Daily Star, LA Times, and Roswell Daily Record.
The ABQ journal also has this profile of the immigrant influx.
The AP has also reported:
Boehner urges military help for border crisis
Cruz blames immigration surge on Obama order (short article that ignores the fact that DACA doesn't cover new immigrants at all!)
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