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The Biden administration is trying to manage the 21,000 UACs in U.S. custody across the country by deploying federal workers to staff sites.

Migrant children stuck in limbo as Biden administration opens emergency shelters nationwide CNN 1 hr ago By Priscilla Alvarez and Kristen Holmes, CNN © Brittany Murray/Pool/Getty Images Sleeping quarters set up inside Exhibit Hall B for migrant children are shown during a tour of the Long Beach Convention Center on April 22, 2021 in in Long Beach, California. Long Beach officials and officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services led the tour. Migrant child...

Updated: 9:52 AM CDT Apr 27, 2021 By Priscilla Alvarez and Kristen Holmes, CNN On one side of the Dallas Convention Center earlier this month, hundreds of teens gathered for a high school volleyball tournament, complete with coaches, spectators and corporate sponsors. The sounds of their cheering were muffled but audible on the other side of the building, in a temporary shelter for hundreds of other children — all of them unaccompanied minors who recently crossed the border an...

By Dan ODonnell Apr 12, 2021 The Biden Administration has posted a job opening in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for a "Field Program Specialist" whose duties include "expedit[ing migrant] childrens discharge" into the interior of the United States. The jobs responsibilities include "interview[ing] unaccompanied children in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody and collect[ing] contact information for parents in home country and family members in the US" as well as "efficiently...