Exclusive interview: Raymondville shelter for migrant children to close, cutting more than 420 jobs
In 2018, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended large groups of unaccompanied immigrant minors in the Rio Grande Valley. Courtesy of | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Hundreds of employees at a Raymondville shelter for unaccompanied immigrant minors will be laid off by mid-November, according to a state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act letter filed in September. 

San Benito-based Christian nonprofit Sunny Glen Children’s Home expects to cut 424 jobs at its Raymondville site starting Nov. 17 — about half of its roughly 800 employees, the nonprofit’s top official told the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal on Monday.

It was not immediately clear if any unaccompanied children had been recently held at or transferred from the retrofitted Walmart in Raymondville.

Job cuts at the 250-bed shelter include youth care workers, medical providers, food service employees, and teachers, Sunny Glen Children’s Home CEO Chase Palmer said. 

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