News Story (Texas)
Julia Preston
New York Times (NYT)
May 2, 2016
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Tags: Child Care, Children & Juvenile, Immigration Process
Organizations mentioned/involved: RAICES (Texas)
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The Texas license strengthens the hand of the Obama administration as it tries to maneuver around a ruling from a federal judge in California, who ordered the rapid release of all migrant children and their parents and ruled that minors could not be held in secure facilities not licensed specifically for child care.
Officials at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services did not make a statement about the license, which was issued on Friday and posted on the agency’s website early on Monday. The initial license is temporary, lasting six months.
“If ever there was lipstick on a pig, this is it,” said Jonathan Ryan, the executive director of Raices, a legal services group in San Antonio that works with immigrants. “If you want a child care facility, you don’t contract with a for-profit prison company.”