Federal officials say they’ve moved all migrant children out of facilities run by Southwest Key Programs, and the nonprofit that operates in Arizona will no longer care for kids.
But the federal agency that becomes the guardian of children who show up alone at the U.S.-Mexico border won’t say where they’ve been taken.
They’re called unaccompanied minors in government jargon and they’re wards of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
But the agency would not say where kids removed from Southwest Key have been sent to live, citing privacy and security.
The Biden administration filed a fair-housing lawsuit against Southwest Key in July, alleging that its workers were sexually abusing kids in their care for years.
The complaint details several alleged incidents in Arizona, such as a worker paying a teenage boy for sex at a hotel.
Now a judge has closed the case and federal grants that fund Southwest Key are under review.
