A total of 432 unaccompanied children who were caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border were shipped to a holding center in Nogales, Arizona from Texas on Friday and 732 more children will be brought to the facility this weekend, sources said.

The children were just part of the nearly 50,000 unaccompanied kids who illegally crossed the border in the Rio Grande Village of Texas but were arrested by the US Border Patrol, the Associated Press reported.

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The transfer of the said children comes after the Department of Homeland Security said the Border Patrol did not have detention space to process a sudden rise in undocumented immigrants from Central America who were arrested in the Texas-Mexico border.

Sources said the holding center in Arizona will be used as a way station where those arrested children will undergo medical examination and vaccination before they will be brought to the facilities in California and Oklahoma.

The move, however, was criticized by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who described the policy of sending illegal migrant kids to the holding center as "dangerous and inhumane".

"I am outraged and disturbed that the administration of President Obama continues to implement such a dangerous and inhuman policy," the Arizona governor said in a written statement.

Brewer said the Nogales facility is unfit for children and that the conditions at the center are so dire that the state of Arizona is forced to provide federal medical and other supplies to the facility for the welfare of the illegal migrant kids.

"President Obama should stop transferring migrants caught in Texas to Arizona," Brewer demanded in her written statement.

In the past, illegal border crossers from Central America were placed in detention centers and then sent back to their home countries. But the Department of Homeland Security admitted that the surge in the arrival of families and children crossing the border on their own created a new challenge because the department only has one detention that can hold families and children and it is situated in Pennsylvania.

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