Casa Antigua, in San Benito, Tex., is a facility run by Southwest Key Programs that houses immigrant children who have been separated from their families. The tax records show that Juan Sanchez, founder of nonprofit Southwest Key Programs, which is based in Texas, earned $3.6 million in total compensation that year, which The Washington Post reported last week. Sanchez left Southwest Key earlier this year amid anger over his income and scrutiny of its facilities and processes. [Former Southwest Key leader earned $3.6 million in 2017]Southwest Key is a prominent contractor housing unaccompanied migrant children awaiting placement with relatives or other adults. Then it doubled again in 2017, according to the tax form released Tuesday and another filed by a Southwest Key subsidiary that manages charter schools in Texas.

Source: Washington Post July 16, 2019 17:09 UTC