Texas Governor To Pull Licenses for Facilities Housing UACs

Is your Republican governor one of twenty governors who told Biden not to send Unaccompanied Alien Children (mostly teens) to their states?

Twenty Governors to Biden: Don’t Send the Illegal Alien Children to Our States

If so, tell them to put their money where their mouths are and follow Governor Abbott’s lead.

By the way, Abbott was the only Republican governor in the nation to support President Trump’s efforts to reform the Refugee Admissions Program. Trump’s concept was to give the states and local governments a greater say in the placement of refugees. Of course, as we have been saying the ‘children’ are not refugees.

From the Dallas Morning News:

Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas child-care regulators to yank licenses of facilities housing immigrant kids

AUSTIN — Escalating his showdown with President Joe Biden, Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday ordered state child-care regulators to yank licenses from facilities that house minors who crossed the state’s southern border without papers and were detained.

Currently, 52 state-licensed general residential operations and child placing agencies in Texas have contracts with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to care for undocumented immigrant children.

ORR contracts with about 200 facilities in 22 states.

Within three months or so, Abbott’s move apparently would force them to stop serving unaccompanied minors because the facilities must have state licenses to qualify for the federal contracts.

The effects are unclear: Nationwide, there are now about 17,000 unaccompanied children, according to data provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As of May 19, 4,223 of those were being housed in state licensed facilities or child placing agencies in Texas, according to the state Health and Human Services Commission.

Though it’s unclear how many are kept in unlicensed emergency sites – such as the one that just closed in Dallas or the site at Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso that can hold up to 10,000 unaccompanied migrant children and teens – Abbott’s move potentially could force relocation of up to one-fourth of the children nationwide.

Much more here.

See a post I wrote at ‘Frauds and Crooks’ in April on how the UACs hurt American kids who need foster care.