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US at risk of maxing out capacity to hold migrant children; Biden admin under scrutiny for reopening surge facility AP HOUSTON -- New data shows that U.S. facilities are on the verge of maxing out their capacities to hold unaccompanied migrant children needing to be connected to relatives or sponsors after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border, ABC News has learned. Shelters run by the Office for Refugee Resettlement, the division of Health and Human Services tasked with placing these children, are at 92% capacity, according to an HHS official. While the agency has more beds than ever before in i...

With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S. U.S. Health and Human Services on Wednesday authorized operators of long-term facilities to pay for some of the children’s flights and transportation to the…

Amid surge, US tries to expedite release of migrant children By The Associated Press - | Feb 25, 2021 FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2019, file photo, migrant teens line up for a class at a "tender-age" facility for babies, children and teens, in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, in San Benito, Texas. With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S. The U.S. Health and Human Services on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, authorized operators of long-term facilities to pay for some of the children'...

Josh Einiger reports President Biden and congressional Democrats proposed a major immigration overhaul Thursday that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally. "We had to expand and open additional facilities because there was not enough space in the existing facilities if we were to abide by COVID protocols," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday. Psaki noted that Biden halted a Trump-era practice of expelling unaccompanied immigrant children under public health law, though the U.S. still expels immigrant f...

HOUSTON (AP) — With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S.