It was announced in 2022 that the former American Hebrew Academy on Hobbs Road would be used to house unaccompanied immigrant children, but so far no children are being housed at the facility.
In June 2019, the American Hebrew Academy closed, and on June 10, 2022, the board of directors of the American Hebrew Academy announced that the campus at 4334 Hobbs Road would be leased to the Department of Housing and Human Services (HHS) Administration for the Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
There has been much speculation on social media sites about exactly what is happening at the American Hebrew Academy, but few answers.
On Friday, Dec. 29, the Administration for Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement released, “ORR Influx Care Facilities for Unaccompanied Children: Fact Sheet.”
Under the heading Greensboro ICF [Influx Care Facility] it states:
“HHS has secured a facility in Greensboro, North Carolina as the site of the future Greensboro ICF. When opened, the ICF will provide shelter for boys and girls, 13 to 17 years old, and has a capacity of up to 800 beds. There are currently no children in care at the site, and no current activation date. Opening the facility will depend on a variety of factors including capacity requirements and UC [unaccompanied children] referral rates, among other considerations. Current facilities on campus will be utilized for education, housing, mental health, medical, and case management needs.”
The report gives the status of other ICF sites and states that:
- The Pecos ICF in Pecos Texas opened as an emergency intake site for unaccompanied children and is now an influx care facility with a funded capacity of 1,000 beds with 407 children at the site.
- The Dimmit County ICF in Carrizo Springs, Texas has a funded capacity of 250 beds and currently houses 176 children at the site.
- The ICF at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas was placed in a “warm status, which means a facility is not fully staffed and there are only minimal onsite facility management services, such as payment of utilities, infrastructure repairs, and fence landscaping, and storm damage preparation.”
From the report, it appears the ORR has hundreds of empty beds at the currently open ICF sites and that Fort Bliss is further along than the site in Greensboro, which is the only one listed as a “future” ICF site.
Just another complete waste of taxpayer money! Would assume since it is secured our Federal Government is paying for it to sit empty?
When you go by the old Hebrew Academy there are usually a bunch of cars in the parking lots. Are they working on the facility and if so is it the Federal Government paying them( in other words our tax dollars)? If they aren’t working to fix it what are they doing at the facility?
The cars were there overnight on a holiday weekend. What is the explanation for that?
Opps. An unusual request. What are the chances to get Johnny Batchlor to write a column
once a week or month such as he did for that other paper some years ago? He was qualified
as a gourmet or restaurant food expert as well as an interesting writer.
former weight lifter ‘ronny barnes’ ?
Interesting but not sure I believe anything coming from the current party in charge that created this intentional mess. Ride by and see numerous cars on campus…why? I have seen numerous buses, usually in groups of two, driving up Jefferson. Occasionally only a single bus will come off Bryan Blvd making a trip to the academy. I believe the govt notice is a lie and typical Biden BS.
If the children are to be housed at the Hobbs Road “facility” and is currently not being used I wonder why the parking lots along the athletic fields are full AND I have personally seen a charter busses going through the gate.
Hmmm !
So, there are three facilities in Texas taking in these children with hundreds of openings. Why is a facility all the way over in Greensboro, NC even considered?
Could this be a politically driven decision by current Representatives in North Carolina, looking to feather their nest?
Awesome for Greensboro to be a part of the solution versus just the complaints we always see in the comment section here in the RT.
Chris, let me make sure I understand your remark. The federal government has paid an enormous amount of taxpayer money for the Hebrew Academy to sit idle. This will solve what problem, exactly? This will be a solution for what? Do you not understand that tax money is money taken from working Americans and SS recipients by the government under threat of criminal prosecution for failure to pay taxes. Do you not pay taxes? Do you not file an income tax return? Do you not care how your taxes are used?
This is BS, there are over 100 vehicles on this campus daily, plus a constant flow of white buses that have “Charter” on the sides of the buses, these are greyhound size buses going in and out from the campus gates.
“HHS has secured a facility in Greensboro, North Carolina as the site of the future Greensboro ICF. When opened, the ICF will provide shelter for boys and girls, 13 to 17 years old…”
Any bets on how long the “…shelter for boys and girls, 13 to 17 years old…” will stand before it’s changed to allow ALL illegals?
You are an idiot. We don’t house adults. They declare asylum based on outdated US law and are set loose to meet up with friends and family already here.
Well they are housing someone because all lots were full of vehicles for the whole New Years weekend. Overnight.
They have workers fixing up the place on 1st 2nd 3rd shifts and they drop them off over there and pick them up the workers are not allowed to drive on site they have to meet in a parking lot about 20 mins away
Someone drives on site because every parking spot, including those around the track are visible. How much “fixing up” does the place need?
And they work 24/7 on a holiday weekend?
US Government funded terrorist training camp.
Here’s an idea:
Let’s use it for the desperate Americans who are homeless in Greensboro.
Look around, they are everywhere, and hungry, too.
Why?
Why ALWAYS are Americans last on the list, now, with our government?
Seems they have painted themselves into a corner on this one. Maybe pressure from the community has actually prevented them from bringing kids in so far (they’ve been talking about this for what, almost two years now?). On the other hand, they have to appease the local Democratic establishment who are more than happy to bring thugs into our community.
Meanwhile, they still pay rent to the Chinese overlords who purchased the community.
One question they never really have answered. Why does it take 1600 people to run a facility for 800 kids?
More total BS from this government…hundreds of cars/trucks there during the week…if not operating why??? Who is paying all these people for months now to be there? Sat at Hobbs light and watched a Charter Up bus leave there around 4 PM Saturday afternoon…all glass dark except or the driver (who was driving on the left side of the bus) Why are these buses constantly coming in and out if not dropping off people? We need to demand some answers and now…what is going on at this location and stop with the nothing yet BS because it certainly is!! We taxpayers who are paying for this nonsense demand to know and now!!
I have witnessed many times the number of workers entering and leaving the facility. There has to be 100 or more full time employees there doing who knows what.
I have also witnessed white buses with blacked out windows entering the facility at night coming from the GSO AIRPORT and entering via the Jefferson rd side entrance.
The Biden Admin has lost over 100K kids and has distributed children to known trafficers and pedophiles.
Kids in cages turned into kids trafficked and abducted for who knows what.
Pedo Petes child trafficking bonanza in our back yard.
So what are the people in the cars, charter buses in and out with blacked out windows, and wearing bright ponchos with umbrellas in the stands – usually just after a drop off from the blacked out charter buses – doing there? Our tax dollars are funding a facility at a cost exceeding $10million/ month. Over 9million people have illegally entered the country – close to 3% of the entire population, since Biden took office. We are being lied to and nobody seems to care……
letz use it locally as a public boarding school for our ‘in crises’ kids . . . & tempt hebrews back to run it ?
Someone working there had to know what’s really going on. Please contact Rhino staff. I’m sure they will protect your identity, and the rest of the local press certainly isn’t going to look into it.
I know someone who used to work there as security. They’d love to talk but they’re afraid their personal info will be leaked. People are ruthless about slandering anyone near this location.
Diploma mill for gifted basketball players. I know this from 200 miles away. How are they keeping this a secret? Team is really good though. (maxpreps.com)
Remember, the Hebrew Academy received about 1.5 million $$ of PPP grant money even though the school was not in operation at the time. This was before there was any transfer of ownership. Kathy Manning had a hand in this PPP windfall for a school that had been closed for years. The Hebrew Academy Board had to assure recouping money lost on the failed academy venture. When Jefferson Pilot owned the land, property taxes were paid. When the land was purchased and a school was built, the land and buildings became property tax free. Who made up for the tax revenue loss, all other property taxpayers. The government will not lose tax money, they will take it from others.