Trump administration routes most unaccompanied migrant children into Texas shelter system

The Trump administration is now sending most unaccompanied undocumented children with active immigration court cases to unlicensed government facilities in Texas, according to data shared exclusively with the Guardian by researchers at bklg.org. Nearly 80% of such children placed in immigration proceedings in July and over 90% in August were funneled into Texas shelter networks, totaling 925 children under HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement, including 651 sent there in July and August alone. Advocates warn these children have low chances of getting a lawyer and fear the system could become a "deportation churn-out factory."