Plans For Colorado Shelter For Immigrant Children Scrapped

DENVER (AP) – The federal government is abandoning plans to open a temporary shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children in suburban Denver, saying it would take too much time and money to get the site ready.
An assessment by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that it would cost an estimated $28 million to $37 million and take about a year to transform a warehouse at the sprawling Federal Center in Lakewood into a shelter for up to 1,000 children, spokeswoman Andrea He