There are active Covid-19 infections that have been traced among the migrant children at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center according to a March 24th article from the Dallas Morning News. In it they say:

“There have been almost 2,900 lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases among unaccompanied immigrant minors taken in custody after crossing the border in the past year, according to federal data released to The Dallas Morning News. About 1,900 of those cases were in Texas.

Some unaccompanied teen boys have also tested positive after they arrived at temporary child migrant shelter at Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. They were quarantined, said a spokesman for Health and Human Services, the agency now caring for the children.”

People still seem interested to help out at the center according to a separate Dallas Morning News article from March 23rd. In it they say:

“In Dallas, immigrant advocates have been eager to join in on the volunteer work. A large number of the unaccompanied minors come from Honduras, a country of about 10 million that was hard-hit by a pair of hurricanes, violence, and corruption. Those problems are often cited by Honduran immigrants as causes of their exodus.”

The center is still receiving more migrant teens for temporary housing as the pandemic continues.