Biden administration opens additional migrant facility to hold 2,000 unaccompanied children

The Biden administration is opening another overflow facility to house migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border, where thousands of children are coming across the international boundary without parents every week.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced in a press release Saturday evening that it will soon open the Target Lodge Pecos North facility in Pecos, Texas. The new facility will become the fourth processing center that HHS’s Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Refugee Resettlement has opened since President Biden took office in late January and record-high numbers of single children, known as unaccompanied minors, began increasingly arriving at the southern border.