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With Daniel Lippman
CHAMBER GOES AFTER ENHANCED UNEMPLOYMENT: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce this morning seized on April’s vastly underwhelming jobs numbers, laying the blame on the federal $300 enhanced unemployment included in President
Joe Biden’s relief package and calling for the benefit to be scrapped.
Migrant children could be housed at a former school in North Carolina, officials say
May 7 A former North Carolina school could become a site for temporarily housing unaccompanied migrant children.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it s considering starting an emergency influx shelter at the vacant American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro.
The federal agency told local officials Tuesday it was evaluating the campus and hoped to soon make a decision about using it to house migrant children. No specific timeline was given in a written statement. If selected, the American Hebrew Academy would remain unoccupied but available for use to ensure that children are not kept in border patrol stations for longer than 72 hours, federal officials said Friday in an email to McClatchy News.
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Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar is accusing the Biden administration of moving unaccompanied minors from one border facility to another to create the impression it is emptying crowded holding areas.
Cuellar, a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, accused the Department of Health and Human Services of using the tactic to secure better images of its crowded Donna, Texas facility. All they’re doing is, they’re moving kids from one tent to the other tent and saying: Oh, they’re not in the Border Patrol (custody). But they re right next door, Cuellar said.
Meanwhile, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement reported this week that there are currently 22,195 unaccompanied children in its custody – a new record. Additionally, 2,000 children are being held by other federal agencies, the Washington Examiner reported.
Editorial: Governor, where is the evidence at Freeman?
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made explosive allegations last month about child abuse at the Freeman Coliseum. We are still waiting for evidence.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio Express-News
Gov. Greg Abbott owes the public either an explanation or an apology about the serious and unfounded allegations of child abuse he made last month outside Freeman Coliseum.
He either lied about the conditions there, or he eagerly used the unfounded allegations as a photo op.
Either way, the governor has shown he’s willing to use children and the hot-button issue of immigration to satisfy political ambitions. Having lied during February’s winter storm that renewable energy was the reason for the power outage, Abbott has affirmed there’s no meat too red, or raw, to serve the base. And that was before Abbott, last week, perpetuated the lie that President Joe Biden’s climate change plan would re