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b'\\u2018Tent cities\\u2019 for migrant children reportedly cost much more than detaining families together\\n\\nPUBLISHED WED, JUN 20 2018\\n\\nKEY POINTS\\n\\nIt reportedly costs $775 per person per night to keep the newly separated children of families who cross the U.S. border illegally in \\u201ctent cities.\\u201d\\n\\nThe per-person cost at certain detention centers that would keep families together is $298 per night, according to an agency estimate from 2014, NBC reported.\\n\\nThe Trump administration plans to spend almost a billion dollars to detain and house children in the 2018 fiscal year, according to Health and Human Services data reviewed by Bloomberg.\\n\\n\\u2018Tent cities\\u2019 for migrant children reportedly cost much more than detaining families together\\n\\nKevin Breuninger@KEVINWILLIAMB\\nKEY POINTS\\n\\nIt reportedly costs $775 per person per night to keep the newly separated children of families who cross the U.S. border illegally in \\u201ctent cities.\\u201d\\n\\nThe per-person cost at certain detention centers that would keep families together is $298 per night, according to an agency estimate from 2014, NBC reported.\\n\\nThe Trump administration plans to spend almost a billion dollars to detain and house children in the 2018 fiscal year, according to Health and Human Services data reviewed by Bloomberg.\\n\\nOccupants at Casa Padre, an immigrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., are seen in this photo provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, June 14, 2018.\\n\\nACF | HHS | Reuters\\n\\nIt costs $775 per person per night to keep the newly separated children of families who cross the U.S. border illegally in \\u201ctent cities,\\u201d\\xa0NBC News reported Wednesday, citing a Health and Human Services official.\\n\\nThat\\u2019s more than twice as much as it would cost to keep the migrant children together with their families in certain detention centers, such as the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement\\u2019s Texas facility, NBC reported.\\n\\nThe per-person cost at one of those centers is $298 per night, according to an agency estimate from 2014, NBC reported.\\n\\nThe HHS official, and several former officials, told NBC that the high costs come from the need to immediately supply the newly constructed tents with air conditioning, as well as medical workers and other employees.\\n\\nThe official told NBC that HHS is \\u201caggressively looking for potential sites\\u201d to build more tent cities, which have been built specifically to house migrant children along the U.S.\\u2032 southern border. HHS did not immediately respond to CNBC\\u2019s request for comment or confirmation.\\n\\nThe Justice Department declined to comment in response to CNBC\\u2019s request for information about the research that informed Attorney General Jeff Sessions\\u2019 April decision to issue a \\u201czero tolerance\\u201d directive toward prosecuting migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border.\\n\\nMore than 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their families as a result of that policy.\\n\\nThat number is expected to grow more quickly as the government allocates more resources towards dealing with immigrants.\\n\\nThe Trump administration plans to spend almost a billion dollars to detain and house children in the 2018 fiscal year, according to Health and Human Services data\\xa0reviewed by Bloomberg.\\n\\nAlmost half of that funding will go to a single Texas nonprofit, Bloomberg said. That nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs, will reportedly be paid $458 million in 2018.\\n\\nAn\\xa0investigation\\xa0by The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Texas Tribune found that Southwest Key Programs was cited by state inspectors for more than 246 violations, including an October incident in which an employee showed up to on Texas facility while drunk.\\n\\nThat investigation found that serious misconduct was often overlooked by the government despite allegations of mistreatment from state inspectors at a number of facilities that have since been awarded government contracts to care for immigrant children.\\n\\nData showed the government awarded $1.5 billion between 2014 and 2018 to compani\\n\\n--- \\n\\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chicano/message'