Tornillo (Texas)
The town of Tornillo is located in El Paso County , Texas , United States. In 2010 there were just over 1500 inhabitants. In national statistics, it belongs to the El Paso Metropolitan Statistical Area .
In the village there is Sonic Ranch , a huge settlement.
In June 2018, the US federal government built a tent city here at the Marcelino Serna Port of Entry as a camp for the captured children of migrants from Mexico (American expression: Tent City Detention Camp for Migrant Children ). The first reports about the detention camp are from June 2018.
The zip codes of the location are: 79838 and 79853
See also
- Clint , in the same US county
Web links
- hundreds-of-migrant-children-brought-from-the-controversial-us-border-camp , mirror-online from June 25, 2019 (agency report to NYT )
- tagesschau.de report on Texas migrant children from June 26, 2019
- Announcement of the resignation of John Sanders , Die Zeit from June 26, 2019 - John Sanders , com. Head of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
- The children's camp in Texas , Frauke Steffens, FAZ October 2, 2018
- The New York Times reported on Sept. 30, 2018 that the camp is still in use: 2018/09/30 / us / migrant-children-tent-city-texas Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border . (Headline translation: Hundreds of migrant children secretly brought to a tent camp on the Texas border. )
- The population composition according to the information from the US Census Bureau (enter Texas to get to the database page)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rick Jervis: 'Abhorrent': Texas officials, advocates decry placing immigrant children in tent cities (en) . In: USA TODAY , June 15, 2018.
- ↑ 255 comments on this in the NYT
- ^ Hundreds of Children Red in the Desert. End Trump's Draconian Policies. The administration created this crisis. (In the opinion section: Hundreds of children in the desert. End Trump's draconian measures. It is the government that caused this crisis. ) NYT Oct. 1, 2018