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Report: Migrant Children Flown to Chattanooga, Bused to Other Locations

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 21, 2021

Tennessee’s elected officials are looking into reports that migrant children were flown to Chattanooga, loaded onto buses and transported to multiple cities across the southeast. Chattanooga TV station WRCB broke the story earlier this week. Gov. Bill Lee, who had declined a Biden administration request to house unaccompanied minors weeks ago, says he was not notified of the action. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann have sent a letter to the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services saying they are “deeply troubled” by the lack of transparency and accountability. They also are calling for a halt to the flights and demanding a briefing from the Biden administration, WREG reports. State lawmakers also are speaking out. Several talk to the Tennessee Star. The news comes on the heels of reports in April that unaccompanied minors were being housed at a former Tennessee Temple dormitory in the Highland Park neighborhood of Chattanooga.

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