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The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas, designated last year as an overflow medical facility for coronavirus patients, is now being repurposed to house migrant teenage boys. (Tony Gutierrez/AP)

US to House Up to 3,000 Migrant Teens at Downtown Dallas Site

The U.S. government plans to use the downtown Dallas convention center to hold up to 3,000 immigrant teenagers as sharply higher numbers of border crossings have severely strained the current capacity to hold youths, The Associated Press reports.