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Additional housing is being provided for unaccompanied minors picked up at the southern border in Donna, Texas. Recent reports from traveling lawmakers must have provided the motivation to spur on the Biden administration to ease the horrendous overcrowding of current facilities, including one in Donna. The new shelter will be right next to that one, as a matter of fact.
Unless the Biden administration makes the decision to use catch and release for unaccompanied minors as it does with adults and families now, there really isn’t any other choice but to put up more shelters. Children, some very young children, cannot sleep crammed up next to each other on concrete floors under foil FEMA emergency blankets for days on end. This message is being made clear as senators and members of the House of Representatives take tours of the U.S.-Mexico border, including facilities holding illegal migrants. Senator Cruz brought the reality of a shelter in Donna to the public and it was shocking to see. Senator Cornyn released a video of a recent visit to the banks of the Rio Grande Valley. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, released the first photos from Donna, Texas. The Biden administration isn’t interested in listening to him, either. These are all Texas lawmakers who are aware of the situation on the ground. Cruz suggests that Biden go back to Trump’s border policies but that would be too reasonable. And, it would include Biden admitting he is wrong and Trump was right in how to handle surges of migrants crossing the southern border. It’s hard for Biden to call Trump a racist xenophobic if he utilizes the same policies.