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Neera withdraws:
Breaking: Conspiracy Theorist Neera Tanden Withdraws Nomination After Deleting Controversial Tweets
And:
Dr. Jill to the rescue:
More humane cover up:
DHS warns Biden of crisis: Record 117,000 unaccompanied children
expected at border this year
The Biden administration reportedly expects an unprecedented surge
of unaccompanied migrant children showing up on the southern border in hopes of
being admitted into the United States during its first year.
Border officials anticipate 117,000 children will arrive at the
U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or guardian in 2021, according
to a White House domestic policy council document to be shared with President
Biden this afternoon, which Axios reported Tuesday.
The number is higher than the 68,000 taken into
custody during the 2014 surge of solo children and the 80,000 who arrived
during the 2019 humanitarian crisis at the border.
"I actually think that’s an undercount," Victor
Manjarrez, Jr., a former senior Border Patrol agent who teaches about law and
human behavior at the University of Texas at El Paso, told the Washington
Examiner.
Manjarrez pointed to the Biden administration's decision to
discontinue the 10-month practice of returning all unaccompanied children to
Mexico rather than bringing them into U.S. custody as a leading factor for
smugglers sending 2,000 children over the
border each week this month. After taking office in January,
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed border
officials not to send any single child south of the border, choosing instead to
stick along the lines of a 2007 trafficking law that protected most single
children from being deported.
However, the Border Patrol is already struggling to hold minors in
its custody because its holding stations are not suited for children and
coronavirus restrictions make it difficult to detain people safely. Children
are to be held by Border Patrol no more than three days before being transferred
to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees child care
facilities where children are held before being released to a family member or
sponsor in the U.S.
Biden is scheduled to attend a private briefing Tuesday afternoon
in which he will learn of HHS's plans to make 20,000 total shelter beds
available. HHS had 8,000 beds as of last week.
The large majority of unaccompanied children arriving at the
border are 16 and 17 years old. Of the estimated 8,000 solo children taken into
custody in February, 6,000 were 16 and 17 years old.
The White House declined to comment on the Axios report
that the White House domestic policy council planned to alert Biden on this
development.
In recent weeks, the Biden administration has allowed HHS to pay for minors in its custody to be flown to their sponsor or family member's home when the receiving adult cannot pay for the cost. The decision means HHS funding, including taxpayer money, will go toward resettling children in the U.S. while they wait several years for an immigration judge to decide whether they will be removed or allowed to stay in the country.
Katherine Doyle contributed to this report.
Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention
Facilities, Cite COVID-19 By Emily Zanotti
Posted By Ruth King
The Biden administration will not allow reporters to tour juvenile
detention facilities now housing unaccompanied minors who came across the
United States-Mexico border seeking asylum.
“Reporters will not be allowed inside the Carrizo Springs facility
for unaccompanied minors that was recently opened under the Biden
administration in Texas, a Health and Human Services Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) spokesperson” said in response to the Daily
Caller News Foundation’s request to tour the facility.
“The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is not hosting media
tours of unaccompanied children (UC) facilities currently due to the COVID-19
pandemic,” the spokesperson told the media outlet, echoing an answer reportedly
given to ABC News when they also requested a tour.
“If media tours resume, we will send a media advisory,” the
spokesperson added.
During a press briefing Monday, Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he would “look into” the ABC News reporter’s
claims, telling the media that the Biden administration was “open” to media
scrutiny.
“I’m happy to take a look at that, I owe it to my people to
understand the situation and the reasons why access was denied,” Mayorkas said.
“Let me share with you what I communicate to the workforce and we’ll leave it
at that because it’s in the service of openness and transparency. Don’t
shrink from criticism, just work very hard not to deserve it.”
The Biden administration appears to be facing a child migrant
crisis. President Joe Biden loosened restrictions on the southern border, and
asylum seekers responded, flooding over the border in the hopes of taking
advantage of the new administration’s more lenient immigration policies.
As a result, the Biden administration has had to reopen juvenile
migrant detention facilities — a move made in sharp contrast to Biden’s
rhetoric on the campaign trail, when he accused the Trump administration of
keeping “kids in cages,” when it housed unaccompanied minors in the same or
similar facilities.
“The emergency facility — a vestige of the Trump administration
that was open for only a month in summer 2019 — is being reactivated to hold up
to 700 children ages 13 to 17,” The Washington Post reported last week.
“Government officials say the camp is needed because facilities for migrant
children have had to cut capacity by nearly half because of the coronavirus
pandemic. At the same time, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the
border has been inching up, with January reporting the highest total — more
than 5,700 apprehensions — for that month in recent years.”
That number is only expected to grow, according to Axios.
“On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said
from the White House podium the current situation is not a crisis. Today,
the president will be told the number of migrant kids is on pace to exceed the
all-time record by 45% — and the administration doesn’t have enough beds,”
the outlet reported Tuesday.
So far, though, Mayorkas has said, the administration is not
dubbing the situation a “crisis.”
“We are challenged at the border,” Mayorkas said in the briefing
Monday. “It is a stressful challenge.”
“That is why, quite frankly, we are working as hard as we are, not only in addressing the urgency of the challenge, but also in building the capacity to manage it and to meet our humanitarian aspirations and execution of the president’s vision,” he added
Finally:
Republican Totally WRECKS Biden With Latest Statement
This one has to hurt.
According to Breitbart News,
Representative Michael McCaul slammed Biden stating that his border control
is a “terrible message.”
Roberts
said, “When will hear Alejandro Mayorkas say, ‘Oh, we are not in a crisis.
We have a challenge on the border.’ You live in Texas. What do
you think of all that?”
McCaul
said, “I live in Texas, a border state, I chaired the Homeland
Security Committee, and I probably know the border better than
anybody in Congress.
I’m just telling you, the green light is
on now. We are open for business again. It’s the worst message to
be sending to the traffickers who are smuggling these kids
across the border. To see a 45% spike which will take us back to
the Obama administration all over again.”
He
added, “With Mayorkas, I’ve known him for a long time. When he says we are not
saying don’t come, we are just saying don’t come now. This is a
terrible message. They know, they are very smart down there. It’s a business
operation, and when you hear that messaging coming out
of the White House, we will damage all the good we did in the last four
years to stop illegal immigration is going to be damaged in months.” You
can watch a
clip of McCaul’s remarks here.
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