What is Arizona doing about migrant housing facilities?
Phoenix is on the short-list of cities that might receive a new facility to house migrant children. Are we ready?
The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast · The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com
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Show Notes
Gaggle podcast hosts Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Ronald J. Hansen interview former Phoenix Mayor and now Democratic Congressional Rep. Greg Stanton about what he learned touring the Customs and Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, and how he'd apply those lessons to a potential Phoenix facility.
Plus, hear from one of the reporters following migrant facilities in Arizona, Jeanette Hinkle, about the first-of-its-kind, non-governmental housing facility for migrants opening in a shuttered Phoenix school building.
Episode article link here.
Related reading:
-- Reports of misconduct and sexual assault of migrant kids surface at Yuma border facility
-- Phoenix approves migrant shelter for asylum-seekers at closed school
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