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BCFS Health and Human Services (formerly Baptist Child and Family Services) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization based in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in emergency shelter, foster care, and adoption. It was founded as an orphanage for Hispanic children in 1944.
The detention and processing center was opened in 2014 at 3700 W. Ursula Avenue in McAllen, Texas. [4] The facility is made from a former warehouse which was leased by the federal government and modified to be able to hold 1,000 children. [4] Children are kept in cages made of chain-link fencing inside of the 77,000 square-foot warehouse. [4] [2]
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
At the McAllen facility, 384 adult men were caged together. [91] The federal agent in charge of the facility said that many of the men had not bathed in 10 to 20 days, and that some of the men had been held for over 30 days. Agents at the facility wore face masks. A journalist on the same visit said that the "stench was overwhelming".
The Tornillo tent city was a temporary immigrant detention facility for children located in Tornillo, Texas and operated by BCFS on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. The Department termed it an "emergency influx care facility" and named it the Tornillo Influx Facility. [1]
Under federal law, the migrant minors were supposed to be detained for a maximum of 72 hours. At both the facilities in Clint and McAllen, many children said that they had been detained for three weeks or more. [29] [31] In June 2019, three Ninth Circuit heard the case, 17-56297 Jenny Flores v.
South Texas Health System Mcallen has won several awards in the years it has been operating. It was named Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Chamber Hospital of the Year in 2011. [ 1 ] Its maternity ward has won awards such as recognition as a Texas Ten-Step facility in 2013 and 2015 for promoting breast feeding, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and recognition from the ...
MVM, a California corporation incorporated as "M V M, Inc.," [1] is a company headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, United States.It is a private security contractor that provides security contractors, staffing, training, translation and related services to United States Government clients including being a contractor for detaining children who are subject to immigration proceedings.