Neighbor says he saw secret migrant refugee camp near Waco

BRUCEVILLE, Texas -- A normally quiet country road in Bruceville, south of Waco, bustled with bus traffic for weeks this spring as between 1,000 and 2,000 children were trucked in from the border.

The kids, officially known as unaccompanied alien children, were among thousands swamping the border - without their parents - from Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico.

A division of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration for Children and Families, is one of the agencies trying to manage the influx, estimated at 47,000 this year. It will not disclose where the children have been kept, only that now they are at Lackland Air Force Base and at a facility in the Rio Grande Valley.
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But Jay Stewart, whose property borders the Greene Family Camp in Bruceville, watched the dead-end street that leads to the camp choked with bus traffic, truck traffic, and law enforcement officers this spring.

"It was 24-7," Stewart said. "Off-duty police officers. Homeland Security, some of them armed. There were a lot of them out there."

He said there were two groups of about 1,000 each.

"The first group was younger kids. Eight to twelve [years old.] The second group was older kids between twelve and fifteen," Stewart said. "They came in buses an vans. They traveled in groups. They had an escort of two-to-three cars."

Greene Family Camp provides a summer experience for hundreds of Jewish children every year. It has swimming pools, tennis courts, and horseback riding. The camp would not speak to News 8.

Jay Stewart said the refugees didn't use those amenities, but they still didn't want to leave.

"They worked hard to get here, and they didn't want to go back where they came from," Stewart said.

He could see some playing soccer surrounded by guards. And others crying, either sad at being away from home, or at the thought of returning.

As for the neighbors of the camp, some say they didn't notice the traffic. Others did.

"We were concerned about our kids, because of the traffic. And for security. We normally don't lock things up around here, and we had to."

The groups left late last month. Now the camp is getting back to its normal role of being a place for kids to spend the summer. The first session begins on Sunday.

If the camp was a secret, then that neighbor wouldn't have so easily discovered it.

The camp's existence was not publicized, but that isn't the same thing as it being a secret.

As much as I support a secure border and hate illegal immigration, I cannot help feeling sorry for these youths. It is really sad that prosperity doesn't take root in those Latin American countries. I never had kids unfortunately, but I could never see sending my kid thousands and thousands of miles away just so they would have a chance of a better life. I have always hated the fact that the Government of Mexico won't secure their country, steal their resources, and basically deny their citizens the basic rights that most Americans take for granted. If it wasn't for other countries investing in Mexico, there wouldn't be any middle class, just the horribly poor and the thieves in the Government. Hopefully before I go into the ground, Mexicans will be as prosperous as the Canadians; and the Central Americans will be on their way. I don't see it with their horrible socialism. Ironically the Germans lost multitudes of people to the US before they adopted freedom.

Just don't tell anyone.