Texas effort to bar state shelters from housing migrant children could put Biden in a bind

The Biden administration is scrambling to respond to Texas Governor Greg Abbott's efforts to stop shelters in the state from housing migrant children who cross the southern border without their parents.

In an internal message to groups that operate housing facilities, Cindy Huang, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency, said Abbott's directive "would likely impact" shelters' "ability to care for unaccompanied migrant children." Huang and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) lawyers are set to discuss the repercussions of the Texas directive with shelter officials on Monday, according to three people familiar with the scheduled call.