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== Migrant child detention center == Facilities that previously housed [[Stratton Oilfield Systems]] were chosen for a new [[unaccompanied minor]] detention site, with an estimated capacity of 1,000 to 1,600 children. Operations are contracted with [[BCFS Health and Human Services]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/20/trump-prepares-open-new-captured-children-facility-texas-hundreds-rights-groups-call |title=Trump Prepares to Open New 'Captured Children' Facility in Texas as Hundreds of Rights Groups Call for Decriminalizing Migration|website=Common Dreams|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/hhs-unaccompanied-migrant-children-facility/index.html |title=HHS to open new housing for unaccompanied minors|author=Priscilla Alvarez|website=CNN|date=6 June 2019|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref> When the site was previously considered under [[Stratton Security]] management, owner and president [[Dan Stratton]] assured the area's residents that potential residents would not be [[refugees of the Syrian Civil War]] or speak [[Arabic]]. He emphasized that refugees would be securely kept within the facility and would not interact with or murder area residents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-trump-administration-is-converting-a-former-man-camp-in-texas-into-a-shelter-for-migrant-kids/|title=The Trump Administration is Converting a Former "Man Camp" in Texas into a Shelter for Migrant Kids|last=Dwyer|first=Mimi|date=2019-06-07|website=Vice News|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref> The site opened for one month in 2019 and later reopened in February 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |title=First migrant facility for children opens under Biden |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigrant-children-camp-texas-biden/2021/02/22/05dfd58c-7533-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html |language=en-US |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=2021-02-23 |access-date=2021-05-21 |issn=0190-8286 |first=Silvia |last=Foster-Frau}}</ref> In March 2022, Border Patrol agents declared "no vacancy" and plans to release migrants who cleared background and criminal checks in the city of Carrizo Springs.
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