Posted on 02/10/2021 3:47:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... Larger numbers of immigrant families have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the first weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration. Warning signs are emerging of the border crises that marked former President Donald Trump’s term: Hundreds of newly released immigrants are getting dropped off with nonprofit groups, sometimes unexpectedly, and accounts of prolonged detention in short-term facilities are growing.
Measures to control the virus have sharply cut space in holding facilities that got overwhelmed during a surge of arrivals in 2018 and 2019, when reports emerged of families packed into cells and unaccompanied children having to care for each other.
Most of the Border Patrol’s stations aren’t designed to serve children and families or hold people long term. To deal with the new influx, the agency on Tuesday reopened a large tent facility in South Texas to house immigrant families and children.
In a statement last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said some of its facilities had reached “maximum safe holding capacity” and cited several challenges: COVID-19 protocols, changes in Mexican law and limited space to hold immigrants.
“We will continue to use all current authorities to avoid keeping individuals in a congregate setting for any length of time,” said the agency, which declined an interview request.
Meanwhile, long-term holding facilities for children who cross the border alone — some sent by parents forced to wait in Mexico — are 80% full. U.S. Health and Human Services, which runs those centers, will reopen a surge facility at a former camp for oil field workers in Carrizo Springs, Texas, as early as Monday. It can accommodate about 700 teenagers. Surge facilities have an estimated cost of $775 per child per day, and Democrats sharply criticized them during the Trump years.
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Article should cone under heading of propaganda
It’s all part of the globalists’ “Bring Back Better” campaign to destroy America.
What? Didn’t finish the wall?
Which they despise.
Let America see what they got with Biden. Flood the borders, flood small towns.
Invite terrorists too. Watch 'em blow stuff up!
You Lefties wanted Trump gone. This is what you get.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Undoing all the good PT did for America. God help us.
what is disgusting is the way it is being reported.
Is there even one country in the world that has open borders. Why are we hell bent to be the first? Are we going to open our northern borders too? Why not?
This Washington Examiner article is a really good legal primer on why Biden will have a huge problem if he deviates from Trump’s strategy - and it’s because of prior court rulings that were the bane of Trump’s attempts at fixing the problem. Now, to compound the problem, Mexico is refusing to take back ‘families’ with children under 12 (although they are still taking unaccompanied minors back):
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bidens-hands-tied-border-crisis-1997-court-decision
You hacks at the AP enabled this.
It’s your problem now. Solve it.
Sleepy Joe and the Ho along with the National Socialist Demonrat Workers Party OWN ALL OF IT.
I guess they're going to build back better obamacages into which the kids will be held.
Once all white people are purged from the earth, all those remaining will be sitting around in the dark in 20 years, eating field rats wondering, “ What the f**k happened?”
$775 PER CHILD PER DAY??????????
What kind of accounting is that?????
I want DETAILS.
NOT 20...
Perhaps as few as 2.
Obama spent 8 years blaming his predecessor. Why shouldn’t his Padawan?
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