The former American Hebrew Academy site at the corner of Hobbs Road and Jefferson Road continues to be the source of much speculation.
People who live near the site, or drive past it frequently, can’t figure out what is going on. The answer is not much.
On Friday, Jan. 19, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children & Families Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) issued press released titled “ORR Influx Care Facilities for Unaccompanied Children: Fact Sheet.”
According to that fact sheet not only is the Greensboro Influx Care Facility (ICF), the official name of the former Hebrew Academy, not currently housing any refugee children, there is currently no projected date for when it will.
The press release 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 referral rates, among other considerations. Current facilities on campus will be utilized for education, housing, mental health, medical, and case management needs.”
One of the key phrases in that paragraph is “the site of the future Greensboro ICF.”
It appears that the former Hebrew Academy is not yet considered an Influx Care Facility, and since it was leased by HHS in 2022, not only has the facility not housed a single child, the plans if they exist to house children at the facility are not far enough along to propose a date when that might happen.
The same press release states that the former ICF at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, has been closed down.
It also states that the Dimmit County ICF in Carrizo Springs, Texas, which has a capacity of 250 beds, currently has 22 children in care at the site.
The fact that the ORR is not fully utilizing the ICFs that it currently has, and closed down an ICF that was in use, certainly raises the question of whether the future Greensboro ICF will ever become an ICF, and if it does whether or not it will ever house any children.
The question a lot of people would like to have answered is, why are there so many buses and cars at the former Hebrew Academy if it isn’t being used to house refugee children. The press release had no answer for that question.
If it smells like a turd, it probably is a turd.
Just another example of how they waste taxpayer’s money!
There is something rotten in Danmark. Name something our govt does well.
The Jews should take this place back. It was like Disneyland when they ran the academy there. I can’t see anyone being excited about having a government funded terrorist training camp here locally.
At best your inviting illegal aliens, providing them with free food, shelter, clothing, education, indoctrination & counseling so they can take jobs from our children who are natural born citizens. I don’t recall Uncle Sam offering a dime for any of my children, I do seem to remember them threatening to take our property or worse if we don’t pay them to carry out BS like this though!
Uncle Sam don’t give a damn about US citizens.
Sounds like our Federal Government is again throwing away our TAX Dollars !?
Throwing them away to the Chinese owners of the property.
The cars and busses are from the workers. My neighbor has been working there since they strated leasing it. The work long hours sitting and doing some training for more than 18 months with no kids. The staff is not allowed to have their phones, reading materials or anything else. It’s a mentally exhausting job. Workers are from all over the US and Spanish speaking and they get a lodging stipend on top of their salary.
I do not believe a word of this press release.
It’s curious how there was round the clock activity, 24/7, lots of vehicles and people but no visible construction or maintenance vehicles, for months on end. Then Rhino Times runs an article no start date a few weeks ago and suddenly it’s back to cars are only lining the lot M-F during the day. Gate security has vanished. Fewer CharterUp buses.
We are being lied to. This facility is being funded by us at a rate of around $10 million/ month combining contracts – with funding approved to put it closer to $14million/ month. The risk of bad things from that facility is almost infinite while the good is nonexistent. The outcomes are on the hands of every gullible fool who keeps voting for us to have no border and a silly mayor who feigns ignorance at any tough question.
Uber driver here. I’ve picked up several of the workers for the Hebrew school. It’s been about six months, but the busses used to come from Farmington Drive shopping center (off Gate City Boulevard) to the left of Roses.
The workers are told to not tell anyone where they work, but they all seem to say cryptically and dramatically that they work for the government. I pushed enough of them to figure out that they work for a company called something like Logistics Services (I have it written down somewhere).
They report(ed?) to work at the Farmington Drive shopping center and are shuttled in buses to the Hebrew Academy where they provide services like dining services and counseling.
There is a great deal of (perhaps regional) training that happens at the airport Marriot. I’ve driven a lot of people especially from Texas who all have that same silly hesitant response that they “work for the government”. They don’t. They work for these NGO’s and contractors.
The secrecy is the proof of the nefarious nature of what is happening. But I am sure that it is pitched to the workers that so many Americans are racist that they and the illegal immigrants would be in danger.
35 Trillion!
The amount that the U S A owes to someone and the interest is about 500 Billion per year.
How much was paid for the use of the Hebrew Academy and to whom was it paid. My guess the money was paid to American Hebrew Academy. PPP payments and the Refugee Resettlement Facility payments were a windfall to the Hebrew Academy Board. The Hebrew Academy reported to the federal government that 64 payroll employees were affected by Covid, and that was what the $1.5 million (+-) PPP payments were for. How could there be 64 employees before Covid at a closed school? Taxpayers paid the PPP payments. My guess is that Kathy Manning helped the Hebrew Academy receive these payouts.
Didn’t Puxin Limited. out of China, purchase AHA in 2019. Why in the world did they even have 64 employees on their payroll and why were they given PPP money ($1.5m) when they weren’t even operating. They were not being affected by covid! This money needs to be given back. This whole thing stinks . . . who knows what they are using the facility for and why are they working at keeping it such a secret. We as taxpayers, have the right to know. What happens when Trump gets in office and starts obeying the law by sending all of the illegals home and securing our border? What a bunch of wasted money once again!! Oh, and by the way Puxin just recently sold AHA to another Chinese company. When are we going to stop doing business with a communist country and selling all of our property and businesses to them? This makes me SICK and we need to demand answers!!
I’ve said this before. Someone working there must be reading this. Please contact the Rhino staff anonymously and tell them what is really happening. The local TV stations and what’s left of the News & Record certainly aren’t going to look into this.
All the folks spouting off here and not one knows what they are talking about.
If you have answers, please share with the public. Otherwise, you are “spouting off” too.
Please give us the answers!
It’s been my experience if the government (at ANY level) is trying to hide something, it can’t be good or beneficial to the community.
I think it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing buses pulling in at about any time.