Plan halted to house migrant kids at Oklahoma Army base

 


OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials say there is no longer a need to detain migrant children at an Oklahoma Army base and that preparations to house them there have stopped.

Evelyn Stauffer, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, said in a news release Saturday that the decision to stop the preparations at Fort Sill was made because there has been a decrease in the number of unaccompanied migrant children coming into the U.S.

She didn't reply to messages seeking further information.

Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for Oklahoma Gov....



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