The old American Hebrew Academy, now the Influx Care Facility Greensboro Children’s Center was declared operational by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) on March 15.
Currently, there are no children at the facility and no indication of when children will be sent to the Greensboro Children’s Center. According to the ORR website, the Greensboro Children’s Center will house unaccompanied migrant children from 13 to 17 years old. The children will not attend local public schools and will remain under staff supervision at all times.
When asked when the children would be arriving at the center, Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, “I have no idea.”
She did say that the city was supposed to receive two weeks’ to a month’s advance notice of when children would start being transferred to the Greensboro center.
Vaughan said, “They are supposed to be in Greensboro for a short period of time. I don’t expect these children to be here longer than three weeks.”
Vaughan said, “I understand the frustration about the process and the concern about all of the money that has been spent and the center doesn’t even have children there yet. I share those concerns. It’s all our federal tax money being spent.”
Vaughan said that while she had not visited the property lately, city staff has, with the Engineering and Inspections Department as well as the Fire Department inspecting and approving the work that has been done on the facility. She said that the Guilford County Health Department had also been involved.
She said, “So while I haven’t been, there have been local eyes on the project. It’s not our project so I can’t go out there at will.”
Vaughan noted that the Office of Refugee Resettlement did have an email address where people could ask questions and are supposed to get an answer within 48 hours.
That email address is PIO–Greensboro@acf.hhs.gov
According to the ORR website: hwww.acf.hhs.gov/orr/fact-sheet, both the Pecos Children’s Center in Pecos, Texas, and the Dimmit County Children’s Center in Carrizo Springs, Texas, are currently housing no children. The facility at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas, was operating as an influx care facility for children but has now been closed.
Can’t wait to see the response to Alan’s ‘fear of children’ conspiracy theory email to the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
For months many car have daily parked on the property. Whose cars are they! What is that about?
Why not query Representative Kathy Manning ? She’s been suspiciously quiet since this debacle began. Odds are she’s been directly involved in this from the beginning.
Of course, she and, uh… her people.. have.
These are not children. They are teenagers. Ms Vaughn and the rest of council should be ashamed for not opposing this travesty. She says they will rotate out after 3 weeks. If I was a betting person, I would wager that they will be here much longer.
Neighbors, be ready for unsavory characters hanging around the area.
Mayor Vaughn is probably as unsavory a character as you will find “hanging” around anywhere she can get on camera. Why the hatred of unaccompanied young people? Where is any indication of helping anyone do far other than government workers and contractors and the Chinese firm that is leaseing the property?
A person must have a conscience to feel shame.
I have no faith in nor do I believe the mayor’s statements.
Maybe City Manager Jai’s director of intergovenmental affairs and communication can take the lead on finding out the details! 🙂 Is she still a city employee?
“According to the ORR website, the Greensboro Children’s Center will house unaccompanied migrant children from 13 to 17 years old.”
“The children will not attend local public schools and will remain under staff supervision at all times.”
I’ll buy the first part about local schools (at least for now), but the second part should have folks questioning how they intend to do that, and what will happen when (not ‘if’ but ‘when’) illegal immigrant children are found wondering about outside the facility.
And does anybody what to take bets on how long it will take whiny left wing liberals to start screaming about how these illegal immigrant children are being abused by treating them like prisoners by not allowing them out of the facility.
Lets sit back and watch all this carefully.
Amazing you have to make stuff up to try and generate fear about children. Sad really.
Chris, obviously you don’t live in the real world!
LOL, you mean the guy afraid of children who has no actual evidence that any of his injustices are going to actually happen is the guy who lives in your reality? If Alan had an example of another location playing games with their own rules as he wants you to believe, then sure it would be a valid point. But of course, he doesn’t. He just an angry little man with a big mustache who fears things he doesn’t take the time to fully understand.
But you be you.
The injustice inflicted is the injustice perpetrated on the American people by Joe Biden and his cronies allowing illegal immigrants into the US. Illegals of any age.
OK Chrissy, you got me.
I guess my 5 children and 9 grandchildren are a bunch of actors my first wife hired.
I guess the volunteer work I did overseas on the orphanages was actually brothels,
Just makes it all the more puzzling that you fear immigrant children. But you be you.
ILLEGAL immigrant children.
If you’re going to insist on spreading lies, at least get them right
immigrant children are children. you are afraid of children. Sad.
Nancy Vaughn states “it is our federal money that is being spent” as if there is a difference in federal tax money as opposed to state or local tax money. It is all taxpayer money. Who got real money from the Hebrew Academy deal? The Hebrew Academy Board, politicians, local businesses, to name a few. Governments and all involved are so corrupt. Allowing illegal immigrants into our country is an unholy scheme, a burden on Americans. The age of the illegal immigrant is irrelevant. The children are being used as pawns, and so are the American taxpayers. Vote wisely come November. The only voters who would vote for Joe Biden are those who support the decline and fall of the United States. So, think about that come November.
The former Hebrew Academy is owned by the Chinese not a “board” and it is being leased for a lot of tax dollars.
You need to do a little research. Who got money from the deal to use the facility to house illegal immigrants? The question is not what entity owns it now, but who was paid for the use of the facility when Kathy Manning with the help of Nancy Vaughn and Skip Alston facilitated the deal. Remember, the Hebrew Academy was paid about 1 1/2 million dollars in Covid relief money although they were not in operation at the time. Did Kathy Manning help with that too? Most likely. Covid relief money was nothing more than a big scam, and that was taxpayer money too. There should be a US Treasury audit of PPP payments paid to the Hebrew Academy. Keep using the Chinese ownership thing if you are comfortable believing that the Hebrew Academy did not reap money from the facility deal.
Ha! That’s rich Nancy. ” It’s all our money being spent.” Sounds like to me the city council should have been on top of this from the get go. I swear these people are absolutely USELESS.
It may not be her project, but she is in charge of our city.So typical of her lack of action.
Echoing your headline about the mayor having ‘No Idea’, (What else is new?) does ANY local government official reveal to the public how these “youths” are going to be educated?, are they free to wander anywhere they wish?, have they been medically cleared? etc, etc.
From the limited information coming from other areas of our Nation, it seems there is a measles outbreak directly attributed to the illegal invaders. Obviously they are spreading other illnesses as well.
The complete lake of transparency with this crisis by ALL levels of government is damning and tells me they are purposefully hurting their own citizens. This is criminal activity to me.
We have no obligation to illegal immigrants. Every day I remind myself that Joe Biden is not President since Trump won the election. Democrats cheated their way into the White House. Remember, about 95% of trial lawyers are Democrats.
What a waste of federal dollars. Wonder if the other influx facilities currently not housing children are also owned by the Chinese?
If something doesn’t happen soon a lot of the rhinos readers are going to be at serious risk of stress induced medical problems. The conspiracy theories are so thick here that I can smell the late night cigarettes, over burnt Folgers and smoking keyboards from here.
But seriously folks this projects stated purpose is to make a safe and secure facility for kids. Teenagers but still kids. Right and left have both found reasons why they devalue kids well being and it has been on full display here. It’s sick. Open the damn thing, help the children and move on to the next new outrage. I’m sure there is some extremely complicated political issue is out there that requires your expert opinion online to fix.
Hal, your characterization of Rhino readers is not humorous so give up your idea of becoming a comic. We have NO obligation to illegal immigrants regardless of age. If you believe there is an obligation, open your home. Persuade your family and friends to do the same. As for me, I do not want my tax dollars used to house illegal immigrants. The operative word is illegal. Apparently, your heart bleeds for illegal immigrants. Charity begins at home.
Hal you are a complete MORON, children or not they are here ILLEGALLY you go and try to enter any other country in the world ILLEGALLY and see what happens. We have more than enough ILLEGALS now because of the current administration
Three weeks . More workers for the Toyota plant
True. The Mayor has no idea.
Interesting, these many comments, but no one has suggested the best and least costly solution which would to repatriate these “chil’run” back to their home countries and their families there. The citizens here have a hard enough time supporting their own children without the cost and aggravation of raising these illegal immigrant children.
That is the goal Dave. But it takes time to locate, contact and coordinate their return. So, this is where they stay until they do. Not complicated.
Chris, do you really believe that Biden is working on a way to repatriate illegals? Only Trump will do that.
Trump stoped the bill that would have closed the asylum loophole. So I strongly disagree.
Are these in fact unaccompanied minors? My worry is a staging area for pre basic training military age
illegals. A Senator from Illinois has recently pushed this idea.
Illegals should NEVER be allowed to serve in our military. If there were term limits, Dick Durbin (Senator from IL) would be long done. He has been in the Senate since 1997, much too long.
One big Pinata…!