Land use can be unconstitutional. Texas has this odd paradigm in it's government regarding Land use.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders should speak out about discrimination laws causing the Undocumented a great deal of worry.

One has to consider the profound severe weather and where exactly the Undocumented it suppose to claim shelter.

May 21, 2015
By Carl Takei, ACLU National Prison Project

The Dilley "South Texas (click here) Family Residential Center" tries to mask its nature with summer-camp-inspired euphemisms. When I visited Dilley last week along with other nonprofit representatives, we were told that the "residents" live in "neighborhoods" with names like "Yellow Frog" and "Red Parrot," which come with matching cartoon animal labels, and are watched over by "residential supervisors."

But Dilley is no summer camp.

Opened in December, it is a 50-acre secure detention facility estimated to cost $260 million per year and is owned and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's biggest for-profit prison company. Dilley's purpose is to detain families who fled violence in Central America, came to the United States seeking protection, and are waiting for the courts to decide their claims for immigration relief.... 

The Mission Statement of the Texas General Land Office is very deceiving. It sounds as though priority is placed on serving the average citizens of Texas, but, the last few words is the sincere purpose of the agency.

Mission Statement (click here)
The Texas General Land Office serves the schoolchildren, veterans, and all people of Texas by preserving their history, protecting their environment, expanding economic opportunity, and maximizing state revenue through innovative administration and prudent stewardship of state lands and resources.

One of the reasons there is concern on the labeling of land as if in service to the public is the fact the Texas General Land Office also handles monies that fund schools in the state. Supposedly, the GLO (Texas General Land Office) uses income from the public lands in oil and gas revenues to support schools throughout the state.

The idea there is misuse of this label of public lands is a grave concern. And what happens to land in Texas if it doesn't fall into the category of industrial or child land use?

The Undocumented have children and the protections of these people fall into the category of child protection.  

Considering this agency is suppose to distribute monies in the state of Texas one has to realize the growth of charter schools in Texas.

The reason such concern for the number of charter school in Texas is because they are not diversified into percentages that reflect the states minority and impoverished families. For the most part African-American and Poor families are grossly under represented in the Texas charter school system. So, there are many questions regarding this agency. 

Waiting lists abound. This is somewhat dated material if one is looking to bring a reverent issue forward. Obviously, considering the place where the longest waiting lists exist are in large metropolitan cities where minorities are known to be in larger share of the populous.

December 9, 2015
by Brian Thevenot

...The waiting list total, (click here) for the 2008-09 school year, was amassed by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, which published a similar study a year ago that put the prior-year number at nearly 17,000. The waiting lists grew even as the state added charter schools, boosting enrollment from nearly 114,000 to 128,000.

The demand was concentrated almost entirely in Houston, Dallas, the Rio Grande Valley and Austin and their surrounding regions, which include high-poverty areas — more likely to have both an entrenched charter school community and failing traditional public schools that parents might seek to escape. Only about 3,000 families signed up on waiting lists outside those areas....

So, while the State of Texas has this unique, one of a kind agency to render monies to school, there is obviously a concern for minorities, the Undocumented and the Poor. The monies may not be used equitably.

"Texas Education Agency" (click here) 

The concern of the parents in the concentration camp in Texas regarding asthma and other ailments may be valid considering they are primarily Hispanic.

There are many Fact Sheets at this website. This is on a PDF from this site (click here) under the title:

"2012 Child Fact Sheet for Texas and All Health Service Regions Combined (updated 2014)"


...Each morning at 5:30 a.m., guards wake the children up with shouting and lights. For a place with so many young children, there are no toilets or showers inside the housing units — only communal restrooms accessible through hallways exposed to the elements. On one occasion, a young girl was forced to pee her pants during a detainee count because a guard refused to let her leave to use the toilet. It is not surprising that many children start each day with tears....

There is simply no respect for the children and their status as children. The guards are terrifying them. It is a concentration camp. It is regimented, doesn't take of the needs of the people there and provides added danger to the health of young lungs.

...By rendering parents as helpless as their children, the camps both undermined family structures and created a constant undercurrent of anxiety. In the claustrophobia and lack of privacy of the barracks, nobody could escape from the arguments and tears of other families. Even after they left the camps, children struggled to recover from early experiences of living as child prisoners....

The children have been observed to suffer long term effects from this emotional abuse. 

The ACLU cites President Obama's change in the treatment of families of the Undocumented. 

...Between 2010 and June 2014, Immigration and Customs Enforcement generally did not detain families seeking asylum protection in the U.S. However, starting in the summer of 2014, ICE responded to increased numbers of Central American migrants by taking the position that Central American families should either be denied release or released only if they could post enormously high bonds....

That observation is not exactly accurate. There have been children from the Summer of 2014 released to relatives in the USA and also sent back to their country of origin whenever possible.

September 30, 2014

WASHINGTON — President Obama(click here) has approved a plan to allow several thousand young children from Central American countries to apply for refugee status in the United States, providing a legal path for some of them to join family members already living in America, White House officials said Tuesday.

The program is aimed at helping to discourage many children from making a long, dangerous trek across Mexico in an attempt to cross into the United States and join their parents. The idea was first presented to Mr. Obama at the height of the summer’s border crisis, when tens of thousands of young children from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras were pouring across the border from Mexico and presenting themselves to American border patrol agents as refugees fleeing from rape and gang violence....

This particular camp may be an anomaly the President is not aware of to the extent of the mishandling of the Undocumented and their children.

Since Jan. 1, (click here) more than 43,000 unaccompanied minors have been placed with sponsors, usually parents or relatives. They remain there while their cases are being processed. The majority of the children are in states where immigrants have traditionally settled, like Texas, New York, California and Florida. A large number have also been sent to Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Louisiana....

I sincerely believe the ACLU needs to move forward with a strong case on behalf of the Undocumented in this camp and other camps if they exist, but, a concentration camp is not suppose to be the final destination for these people and children.