Officials, however, warn that moving the minors could pose a danger to the children and violate a 1997 legal settlement requiring the government to house minors in "safe and sanitary" facilities.
Nearly 5,800 child migrants were housed at Border Patrol facilities on Sunday, more than double the June 2019 record of 2,600. The Wall Street Journal said those numbers were expected to rise.
The Washington Free Beacon reported the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of HHS, told officials the bureau was struggling with an administration directive to send kids to Fort Bliss, an El Paso, Texas, U.S. Army base under construction, and to an emergency influx center in San Antonio, Texas.
That prompted some officials to warn that following the instructions would "result in children sitting on buses" and "extremely dangerous ratios at the sites affected," referring to the ratio of children to adults.
Those plans emerged after Becerra failed to fulfill a promise to President Biden to recruit 1,000 volunteers from across federal agencies to take paid details at the border.
A GOP congressional delegation toured the southern border during the weekend, with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, calling what he saw a "man-made crisis."
"When you gaze across a massive room with 2,200 teenage boys, it takes your breath away," Cruz said. "It is tragic. It is horrific."
https://newsmax.com/politics/migrants-unaccompanied-minors-border/2021/04/01/id/1015994/Breathtaking incompetency. Good job Biden voters.
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What a low class rat. She could give two shits about the children and she simply used them as pawns two years ago. What a heartless bitch.
NOT A CRISIS UNDER BIDEN AND ITS TRUMP'S FAULT ANYWAY
“Lolzomg border picture”
Bet these guys are laughing too
We haven’t moved.
Like you
I struggle to find the facts of the matter with the border, it's too polluted with confirmation bias. However, what I think is pretty clear, Biden Admin fucked the pooch bigly on an issue which he and the party campaigned hard. If it was crime against humanity in 2019, it is still now, and Biden & Co. is culpable.
Getting rid of enforcement opens the border
Gee see how that works?
In all, more than 204,000 of these expulsions have been carried out across the U.S.-Mexico border since March, according to government data.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-administration-closed-borders-migrant-children-covid-19/
And that’s how you empty the cages. The crisis wasn’t stopped, it was pawned off with Covid as the justification. Which is weird because Covid wasn’t a big deal and everything should have stayed open.
Even with this enforcement, apprehensions still went up every month for Trump’s last 8 months. With no one in cages there still is a crisis, which is why AOC is talking about this