BREAKING: U.S. rep. says there are no more children at Tornillo facility

U.S. Representative Will Hurd (R-Texas Dist. 23) said Friday morning he talked to management at the Tornillo facility who said the last child just left the camp.

“This tent city should have never stood in the first place but it is welcome news that it will be gone,” Hurd said in tweet.

Health and Human Services and the nonprofit running the Tornillo shelter, BCFS, confirmed earlier this month no more children were being brought to the shelter.

BCFS has been running the facility housing unaccompanied illegal immigrants since the facility opened at the Tornillo Port of Entry in June.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for BCFS told ABC-7 there were 400 children at the facility.

BCFS said children at the camp who don’t have sponsors by the end of January would be transferred to other holding facilities or shelters.