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Apr 04, 2021 01:42 AM EDT
The U.S. Pentagon gives its approval on Friday to house the unaccompanied migrant children in its military base in California.
(Photo : Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A child from Honduras waits with her family and a group of migrants after arriving illegally in the United States after they crossed the Rio Grande in a raft guided by Mexican smugglers.
Pentagon To House Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The young Biden administration faces a significant challenge to address the surge of migrant children at the southern border. The numbers of unaccompanied migrant children attempting to step inside the country are very historic.
80 Unaccompanied Minors Surrender to Border Patrol in Arizona Desert
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Texas AG Paxton Says Illegal Immigration Costs State Taxpayers Over $850 Million Annually
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said taxpayers in his state are forking out over $850 million each year to pay for various costs associated with the housing and care of immigrants who enter Texas illegally.
Paxton’s office had re-released the figures, which was first presented to a federal court in January, in an attempt to highlight the gravity of the burgeoning crisis at the U.S. southern border. The significant surge of illegal border crossings in recent weeks, particularly by unaccompanied minors, has overwhelmed border patrol facilities and resources. Although the Biden administration is sending most single adults and some families back, unaccompanied minors are being accepted into the country.
Over 500 Border Patrol agents are working at the facility, reporters were told. Fox estimates this should cost around $6 million monthly, but instead costs $16 million a month now. “The Department of Homeland Security turned over 600 unaccompanied children to HHS on Monday and will have 270 migrants leave on Tuesday. Two planes are flying out each day from the Rio Grande Valley each day to El Paso and San Diego transporting migrants,” Fox News adds.
President Joe Biden did away with the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), dubbed the Remain in Mexico that detained foreigners illegally trying to enter the US, while they awaited hearings. Biden s implemented plan has been slammed as the “catch-and-release” policy by conservatives, as it allows immigrants to illegally enter the US. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents also allegedly apprehended nearly 100,000 people at the border in February, a marked increase from when figures dipped to 16,000 in April last year at t
500 Unaccompanied Minors to be Housed in Houston Holding Facility
The Biden administration is moving another 500 unaccompanied children from border facilities under U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody to an emergency holding facility as part of efforts to reduce overcrowding.
The children are scheduled to arrive at the National Association of Christian Churches site in Houston, Texas, which has been transformed into an Emergency Intake Site used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
The HHS made similar statements earlier this week to announce the opening of additional overflow facilities to address the significant surge of illegal border crossings at the U.S. southern, particularly by unaccompanied minors. Children have been placed in HHS facilities in Fort Bliss and San Antonio.
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