Biden administration opening Michigan facility for unaccompanied children

By Anna Giaritelli

Published April 9, 2021 10:36pm ET

Biden administration opening Michigan facility for unaccompanied children — FILE - In this June 20, 2018, file photo, immigrant children walk in a line outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children a former Job Corps site that now houses them in Homestead, Fla. The landmark court case that has provided the framework for how the government can detain immigrant children has been cited by both sides of the debate over the separation of families at the border. The 1997 settlement known as the Flores agreement has been litigated off and on for the past 33 years and is a crucial piece of the puzzle for the administration's immigration enforcement policies. | (Brynn Anderson/AP)

The Biden administration will soon open an emergency facility in the northern border state of Michigan to hold children who come over the southern border without parents, a move that will require flying young children across the country.

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement will stand up an emergency intake center in Albion, Michigan, to house up to 240 children who are age 12 and under.