TUNICA COUNTY, Miss. — Tunica County has officially shut down any support to build a facility to house unaccompanied immigrant children at a former casino hotel.

It was a tight 3-2 vote on Thursday night as the Tunica Board of Supervisors shot down a letter of support to build an influx care facility.

“If there are other considerations down the road that the vote could resurface something, but as of right now, the board is not comfortable,” a board member said.

The influx care facility was set to have the necessary space for some 2,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors inside two hotels in the shutdown Harrah’s Casino Complex.

Shantrell Nicks represents Rapid Development, an emergency and recovery response organization.

She explained that the project would be entirely funded, staffed and maintained by the federal government.

“There won’t be visitors in and out of the site,” Nicks said. “This is a temporary solution to put them in a temporary place outside of tents at the border.”

However, Nicks’ presentation was met with mixed reactions.

“Those children are not going to hurt Tunica at all, you haven’t even found out all the information about it,” one supporter said.

“I do not believe this is going to benefit our community whatsoever. There are too many unknowns,” one detractor said.

Those opinions were taken into the back room as county supervisors deliberated.

However, questions still raged on among the general assembly.

WREG was in attendance as Nicks spoke with community members and explained the facility would’ve maxed out around 250 children up to 17-years-old.

She also said that the considerable staff for the complex would improve the local economy and the five-year projected contract would’ve generated tax dollars for the area.

WREG caught up with a woman in attendance and asked if the conversation changed her opinion on the issue.

“I don’t know that it changed my mind, I understand that it is a viable option in some areas,” Carol “Doll” Gill said.

However, she did attest that it was still a pretty hard sell.

“Who knows what the future will hold five years from now as far as what we’re available and able to do in this county.”

Rapid Development has told WREG that they’re set to go back to the drawing board and try again after an “education campaign” in the county.