GREENSBORO, N.C. — A viewer emailed WFMY News 2 about seeing buses in front of the former American Hebrew Academy, now known as the Greensboro Piedmont Academy on Hobbs Road.
The Greensboro Piedmont Academy is set to begin hosting unaccompanied migrant children at an unknown date in the future.
The property is planning to house up to 800 children both boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 17 who entered U.S. border custody without their parents or legal guardians.
Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said the buses carried no children. According to the mayor, charter buses have been acting as shuttles for employees of the facility.
She said no children will be arriving anytime soon.
The facility in Greensboro has more than two dozen buildings, sports fields, and an athletic center on a green campus near a lake. The site will offer migrant children educational, recreation, mental health support, and medical services.
In a fact sheet provided by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, there are no children in care at the site and there is still no current activation date. Opening the facility would depend on capacity requirements, referral rates and more, according to the fact sheet.
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