CBP's COVID Restrictions Are Going Out the Window. Here's Why.
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© Getty Images The Biden administration is moving to temporarily reopen facilities housing migrant children to pre-COVID-19 levels, according to a memo obtained by CNN. Administration officials noted that "extraordinary circumstances" have contributed to the decision as thousands of unaccompanied children have sought to cross the border recently and added strain to the immigration system, the news outlet reported. "Additional shelter capacity will minimize the likelihood that children remain in Border Patrol stations longer than necessary, where they are also exposed to COVID-19 transmissi...
Children out in less than 24 hours. children are not waiting at border stations any longer. for family units, right now they're actually going into the migrant protection protocols. if they don't have a claim of asylum being repatriated. the remainder are being released waiting for a proceeding. we would like to maintain custody at a family residential center like the obama administration. that takes 40 to 50 days on average. that's how you have integrity. they're campus-like settings and have dining, medical facilities and courts on site. so they're an appropriate place to manage the immigrat...
Of immigrants are not vaccinated as we are in the united states as children. but also just how many people are in these facilities. now, they do all have beds in i.c.e. facilities. it's not like what we saw at border stations this summer. but also max capacity they have ever been. 52,000 in detention. >> and there's another controversy. the "new york times" has the story about a 24-year-old woman with a rare disease who got notice she could face deportation if she did not leave the country within 33 days, an order described by her doctor, lawyer and mother as tantamount to a death sentence. yo...