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Former Georgia senator says Democrats are using a false narrative to pander to minority voters on Special Report
This is a rush transcript from Special Report, April 1, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
BAIER: Good evening, welcome to Washington, I m Bret Baier. Fresh off the debut of his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, President Biden held his first Cabinet meeting today. He is asking several of his top advisers to take the lead on selling the plan to the public.
Republicans are already ripping the proposal as a Trojan horse filled with non-infrastructure progressive items and loads of new taxes.
Teenage migrant girls are loaded into vans to be transported out of the National Association of Christian Churches facility, on April 17, 2021, in Houston. The facility that housed girls who crossed U.S. border unaccompanied was closed and the girls moved.
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It was a curious sight.
On the first day of April, an emergency shelter for unaccompanied migrant children was opened in Houston, Texas. Seventeen days later, a large group of teenage girls boarded a bus to leave the shelter, which was being shuttered, having fallen short on doing the job.
Since mid-March, the Biden administration has opened about a dozen such shelters, struggling to improve our nation’s care for a growing number of young people crossing the border. But the closing of the Houston facility was hardly a sign of progress, and we simply must do better.
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The cost of housing tens of thousands of migrant children who have come across the southern border since President Joe Biden took office has reached $3 billion, according to a report.
The Biden administration dished out massive federal contracts to private companies and nonprofit groups in its first 100 days to house children in government custody after federal facilities were stretched to their limits.
Between January and March, more than 33,000 unaccompanied children were picked up at the border, which is more than the number of children who came across in the previous 12 months combined. Children are held an average of one month while the government searches for an adult sponsor in the United States to discharge them to as they go through immigration proceedings. As of early May, nearly 25,000 children are in government custody, separated from their parents.