Just like the two neighbors mentioned in a report from Nevada KNPR one hour ago living on 2ndAvenue across the street from the Southwest Key facility here in Mesa for unaccompanied minors, your MesaZona blogger wondered when first seeing the abandoned vacant building just two blocks away from the LDS Temple a couple of years ago, What the heck is going here?
(Could Cornerstone Properties be another For-Profit LDS enterprise???)
First of all - this from the report one hour ago:
Mesa police records show officers went to Southwest Key, a government-contracted shelter for migrant children, almost 150 times in about 26 months
NO ALARM BELLS GOING-OFF FOR THE MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH ALMOST 150 CALLS MADE TO THIS ONE DETENTION FACILITY FOR UNACCOMPANIED MINORS WHO ARE HERE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY????????? . . .A government-contracted "shelter"
owned by a for-profit private corporation that rakes in billions!
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This curious blogger was more interested in why what appeared to be a new 5-story apartment building was then abandoned, surrounded by cyclone fencing, derelict and empty. One report said it was a nursing home and this report one hour ago from Nevada says "it used to be apartments for seniors".
Here's the post published on this blog from June:
Per usual practice of your MesaZona blogger, curiosity sometimes get me going. Like about three years ago getting-around just by chance noticing an empty neglected boarded-up building on 2nd Avenue that looked there was an original size-able plan and investment for it that didn't quite work out as planned. . . The image to the left shows how it appears today - just this morning as a matter of fact. It was a mystery until getting an article in a newsfeed months ago and bookmarking it for future reference.
Asking around, no one knew anything about it. . .
THE LOCAL CONNECTION: Here in Mesa there are not one, but two SWK facilities
05 March 2016: Southwest Key, which operates a federally funded "holding and education area" on the southwest corner of Country Club and Brown roads for unaccompanied minors who have entered the U.S. illegally, has been approved for an additional facility at 723 E. Second Ave. that will house 280 to 320 children. . .
(Could Cornerstone Properties be another For-Profit LDS enterprise???)
Mesa police records show officers went to Southwest Key, a government-contracted shelter for migrant children, almost 150 times in about 26 months
NO ALARM BELLS GOING-OFF FOR THE MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH ALMOST 150 CALLS MADE TO THIS ONE DETENTION FACILITY FOR UNACCOMPANIED MINORS WHO ARE HERE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY????????? . . .A government-contracted "shelter"
owned by a for-profit private corporation that rakes in billions!
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This curious blogger was more interested in why what appeared to be a new 5-story apartment building was then abandoned, surrounded by cyclone fencing, derelict and empty. One report said it was a nursing home and this report one hour ago from Nevada says "it used to be apartments for seniors".
Here's the post published on this blog from June:
16 June 2018
Episode 2 > Every Building Tells A Story:
Detention Facility For "Unaccompanied Minors" Here In Downtown Mesa
05 March 2016: Southwest Key, which operates a federally funded "holding and education area" on the southwest corner of Country Club and Brown roads for unaccompanied minors who have entered the U.S. illegally, has been approved for an additional facility at 723 E. Second Ave. that will house 280 to 320 children. . .
. . . Reese L. Anderson, of Pew and Lake PLC, represented Cornerstone Properties and Southwest Key at the meeting.
The development will be in a former assisted-living facility in four buildings on 2.54 acres, according to a justification document filed by the applicant . . .
The development will be in a former assisted-living facility in four buildings on 2.54 acres, according to a justification document filed by the applicant . . .
This is the existing, old – and it has been vacant for a year-plus – Greenfields Assisted Living Facility. It’s a five-story building,” Mr. Anderson said at the meeting. . . "What this proposal is, is to take this older building and put a great use in it now. The federal government operates what is called the unaccompanied minors program. It’s administered through the Department of Homeland Security Office of Refugee and Resettlement. This is where minors who are here in this country illegally are housed, they’re educated, they’re taken care of medically, mentally. They have schools. They get check-ups. This is where they’re taken care of by the federal government. They’re here for an average time of two to six weeks as the government works to reunite them either with family here in the states or back in their country of origin,” he said. .
The Mesa Board of Adjustment voted 7-0 at a meeting March 2 to approve a special use permit to allow a group home in the RM-4 zoning district.
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KNPR-1 hour ago
Aug 29, 2018 by Matthew Casey
Mesa police records show officers went to Southwest Key, a government-contracted shelter for migrant children, almost 150 times in about 26 months. The calls ...
