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Plan for Texas to host Afghan evacuees gets bipartisan support though experts are wary
Critics warn that the base is ‘not safe’ because of concerns for migrant children held there after crossing the Mexico border
There was bipartisan support in Texas this weekend for housing Afghan evacuees at the million-acre Fort Bliss military base, in El Paso near the Mexico border.
But one immigration rights expert warned both that those escaping the Taliban might need to stay at the facility as long as a year, while they are processed for resettlement, and that the base was “not safe” because of concerns about conditions for migrant children held there after crossing the southern border.
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