Texas-Mexico Border: Level 4 Alert Declared by Homeland Security This Week

The Texas-Mexico border is being overrun by a surge of young illegal immigrants who are traveling alone.  So much so, that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, earlier this week, declared a “level-four condition of readiness” along the Rio-Grande Valley area of South Texas. Unaccompanied minors have outstripped the resources of federal agencies responsible for managing border security and immigration.

Last weekend, according to a New York Times article by Julia Preston, the Department of Health and Human Services opened a new shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.  The facility will house up to 1.000 minors. Transfers of minors to the facility will be handled by both land and air.