Republicans head to border to press Biden on child migrant surge
Laura Litvan and Billy House, Bloomberg
March 15, 2021
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Migrants are apprehended after crossing the border near Mission, Texas, on March 2, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Sergio Flores.
Republican members of Congress are trooping to the U.S.-Mexico border to put a spotlight on a surge of migrants at the frontier that they say is the result of President Joe Biden s shift from the hardline immigration policies of his predecessor.
Less than two months into Biden s term, both parties are already framing their messages on immigration a perennial political flashpoint for the 2022 election to decide control of the House and Senate.
Feds Bus Migrant Children into West Texas Town Under Cover of Darkness
15 Mar 2021
Reports from local news outlets in Midland, Texas, reveal busloads of migrant children being moved under the cover of darkness into a local holding facility. State and local officials received little or no advance notice of the federal government’s plans to move these migrant children into their community.
“On Sunday, Governor Greg Abbott announced that the federal government planned to move some children from the border to a holding facility in Midland,” CBS 7’s Joshua Skinner reported. “The migrants arrived in buses overnight.”
Breitbart Texas spoke to officials operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday regarding the movement of the unaccompanied migrants who had been apprehended by Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the Rio Grande.
Ubly and Cass City schools moving some students virtual due to COVID
Mary Drier, For the Tribune
March 15, 2021
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As COVID numbers climb once again in the Upper Thumb, several school districts have been feeling the effects. That includes both the Ubly and Cass City school districts, both of which are going virtual due to quarantined students and a shortage of staff members.
“We have about seven or eight kids who tested positive and about six to seven staff members also,” said Ubly School District Superintendent Joe Candella. “Because of that, we will be going virtual this week.”