“We must do better” at helping migrant children coming alone to America’s southern border, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, said following a trip she made late last week to immigrant facilities in Texas.

Lee made the trip to Texas as part of a congressional delegation that toured at least two facilities, including the Carrizo Springs Office of Refugee Resettlement and the El Paso Border Patrol Central Processing Center.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.