Biden s first 100 days in office marred by border surge
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Nearing 100 days in office, U.S. President Joe Biden is tasked with handling a crisis on the U.S. southern border that shows no signs of abating.
Migrants are illegally pouring over the U.S. southern border, and unaccompanied children are surging through at record levels. Critics call it a humanitarian disaster people are being crammed into places like the one in Donna, Texas, which is supposed to house a few hundred people under COVID restrictions, but now houses 4,000.
The Biden administration is scrambling to contain the problem, which critics blast as a major blight on the new president s first 100 days in office.
Bexar County officials: Abbott s claims of abuse at Freeman Coliseum migrant shelter aren t true
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Governor Abbott speaks to media in front of the Freeman Coliseum where unaccompanied minors are being held about conditions inside and anonymous allegations of abuse.Jessica Phelps, Staff photographer / San Antonio Express-News
Bexar County officials said Gov. Greg Abbott’s allegations of sexual assault and mistreatment of immigrant juveniles at the Freeman Coliseum are not true.
Abbott, who opposes President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, made the claims in a hastily arranged afternoon trip to San Antonio from Austin earlier this month.
Flanked by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers in front of the coliseum, the governor said state child and family welfare officials had received complaints of “sexual assault” and neglect at the temporary facility for unaccompanied immigrant minors. It is operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi
Express Briefing: Local leaders deny governor s claims about migrant shelter at Freeman Coliseum
April 28, 2021
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Flanked by Texas DPS troopers in front of the coliseum earlier this month, Gov. Greg Abbott said state child and family welfare officials had received complaints of “sexual assault” and neglect at the temporary facility for unaccompanied immigrant minors. It is operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of Refugee Resettlement.
ACF's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides funding and oversight to state-licensed shelters throughout the United States for children referred to ORR by the Department of Homeland Security. The children are known as unaccompanied children (UC). They include both children who enter the country without their parent or legal guardian and children who, for other reasons, have been separated from their parent or legal guardian.
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