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Oregon senator finds closed doors in South Texas migrant children’s shelter

Leah Chavla, a policy adviser for the Women’s Refugee Commission, called the access issues at the children’s shelters a “double-edged sword.”

On the one hand, she said, safety and privacy of the children must be protected. But on the other, she said it’s hard to know what their conditions are like if no one is allowed to ask the children.