Fight Continues Against Housing Illegal Immigrants At Maxwell-Gunter
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It’s getting harder and harder for the US to find places to put illegal children found at the Mexican border.
One solution has been to house them at facilities like Joint Base Lackland in Texas.
Congresswoman Martha Roby doesn’t want Maxwell Gunter to be one of those bases.
“We do need to treat these children with compassion and care but the most compassionate thing we can do is send these children back to their home,” said Rep. Martha Roby.
In 2014, the Department of Defense was looking at Maxwell Gunter to help house 5,000 illegal immigrant children.
After lobbying Alabama’s congressional delegation, it was scratched from the list.
But more need has the government looking to the state again.
“Health and human services has come here and done their initial assessment and we are going to learn within a week what their initial findings are and then we will proceed from there. Again, we shut it down a year ago and we intend to shut it down again,” said Rep. Roby.
The main reason for the congresswoman’s concern is national safety.
Maxwell houses every Air Force officer at least once in their career and the Gunter Annex handles some serious cyber security.
“We have very serious missions taking place at Gunter, whether it’s cyber security, or training exercises, mostly in a classified setting. This is not place at this military installation to house these children,” said Roby.
