Price said federal officials reached out to them.
“There’s a huge need for these people,” he said of children at the border who are unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. “We’ve been asked to potentially help.”
Officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families did not respond to interview requests from the Journal on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden is under pressure to address immigration as thousands of people arrive at the southern border and are packed into holding facilities. The problem is that, despite the border being closed to migrants, more children show up at the border than the Department of Health and Human Services can process, creating a backlog.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed reports that dozens of unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were transported to a shelter at the San Diego Convention Center have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).
HHS officials said those who tested positive were brought to San Diego on a separate plane and their intake was separate from the others. They were also kept in separate areas on a separate floor.
Those who tested negative are tested for COVID-19 every three days. All migrant minors are tested before boarding transportation to the shelter.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria told the media over the weekend that the shelter is only taking unaccompanied girls aged 13 to 17.
Costly needs of migrant children create crisis at U.S.-Mexico border
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Children draw with chalk on the ground at El Chaparral plaza in Tijuana, Mexico on Friday. Hundreds of asylum seekers have set up tents near the port of entry in hopes of being able to seek asylum in the United States. Photo by Ariana Drehsler/UPI | License Photo
April 1 (UPI) Children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents have presented a political and humanitarian challenge for the past three presidents.
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Reports of children in warehouses or jail-like facilities have set President Joe Biden on the defensive about what critics refer to as a crisis at the border. In his first press conference, on March 25, Biden repeatedly stressed that his practice is different from that of former President Donald Trump, who introduced a policy of separating migrant children from their parents and detaining them in cages.
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Paul Angelo, fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the migrant situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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