U.S. closing 6 makeshift housing sites for unaccompanied migrant children

Starting Wednesday, the Biden administration is set to begin closing six emergency housing facilities it stood up in Texas and California this spring to accommodate the record number of unaccompanied children who were entering U.S. custody along the border, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed to CBS News.

HHS plans to officially discontinue emergency housing sites at Lackland Airforce Base in the San Antonio area and a former camp for oil workers in Midland, Texas, on Wednesday. Two other makeshift shelters in Carrizo Springs and Donna, Texas, are scheduled to close on July 19. Convention centers in San Diego and Long Beach, California, are slated to stop housing unaccompanied children on July 15 and August 2, respectively, the department said.