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Immigrant teens to be housed at Dallas convention center

by Jake BleibergNomaan Merchant
| March 15, 2021 4:06 PM

DALLAS (AP) — The U.S. government plans to house up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers at a convention center in downtown Dallas as it struggles to find space for a surge of migrant children at the border who have strained the immigration system just two months into the Biden administration.

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