The Trump administration has been shipping undocumented children to an isolated camp on a desert in West Texas during the night..
In recent weeks, children have been taken there in the middle of the night, multiple US news outlets reported Sunday.
The mass transfer is part of the administration’s attempts to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children.
More than 1,600 kids have been shipped to West Texas so far as the mass reshuffling is underway.
“It is common to use influx shelters as done on military bases in the past, and the intent is to use these temporary facilities only as long as needed,” Evelyn Stauffer, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services Department, was quoted as saying in a New York Times report.
Stauffer further called for an amelioration in the United States’ “broken immigration system.”
“The number of families and unaccompanied alien children apprehended are a symptom of the larger…