Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky

Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky

Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky

The Trump administration is sending pregnant unaccompanied minors to a South Texas shelter (above) flagged as medically inadequate by officials from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The facility is run by a for-profit contractor called Urban Strategies.

Government officials and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.

(Image credit: Patricia Lim)

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