Houston (WBAP/KLIF) – The death of a federal worker at a temporary migrant shelter in Houston prompted the closure of that facility.
According to a U.S. Health Department email obtained by the Washington post, a federal employee died this weekend at an emergency shelter set up to care for unaccompanied migrant children in Texas.
The publication says Mary Brodie-Henderson was an it specialist at HHS and was working at the a site in Houston that housed several hundred unaccompanied children.
Brodie-Henderson collapsed on Friday evening and could not be revived at a nearby hospital. That, according to the email from HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote to his staff.
The Biden administration removed 450 immigrant girls from a facility in Houston over the weekend, without stating a reason why.
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