SCOOP: The government has contracted a collection of shelters for unaccompanied pregnant and parenting teen moms and babies. One of the babies (born in the US and therefore a citizen) in custody is just two weeks old living in a group home California. https://www.revealnews.org/article/the-us-is-quietly-opening-shelters-for-babies-and-young-kids-one-has-12-children-and-no-mothers/ …

Meanwhile, Child Crisis Arizona is holding 12 children, all 5 years old and under. One of the babies there was just born in April. No one will tell me where their moms are, but they're not in the shelter. The facility has a bunch of recent inspection violations from the State.

There's 11 more kids at a shelter in Pennsylvania. A jury recently ordered the facility to pay $2.9M to the father of a girl who took her own life while living at the shelter. A shelter employee recently pleaded guilty in connection to making children beat another child there.

There's more. Legal service providers aren't being allowed to serve all unaccompanied kids. That's probably in violation of federal law. So many reporters recently toured and posted photos of Carrizo Springs. Not one mentioned legal service providers aren't allowed there.

told me that they've been ready to serve kids at Carrizo since before the place opened 2 weeks ago. The shelter, which holds more than 300 kids atm, has 10 rooms designated for this. But the Office of Refugee Resettlement won't allow RAICES to do legal services there

On Tuesday, @RAICES tells me it plans to show up and provide legal services to children at Carrizo. Contract or no contract. Money or pro-bono. The federal refugee agency still hasn't agreed to let them in....

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