Live: Kevin McCarthy & GOP visit US-Mexico border ICE facility amid 'border crisis'

PatriotMan
Published on Mar 19, 2021
McCarthy & GOP visit US-Mexico border and ICE facilityy in El Paso.

Last week House Republicans held a news 'Joe Biden Border Crisis' conference on US President's failing border policies.

The US Department of Homeland Security over the weekend ordered an emergency agency that usually responds to floods, storms, and other major disasters to help care for a growing number of migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has been instructed to help receive, shelter, and transport children over the next 90 days.

The move signals the scope of a growing humanitarian and political crisis for President Joe Biden, who has reversed some of the restrictive border policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump.

A spike in children arriving without parents or legal guardians has exceeded shelter capacity, which was previously cut by 40% to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Those shelter restrictions were lifted on March 5th, but only about 200 beds have come back online, an administration official said Friday (March 12).

Migrant children apprehended at the border are supposed to be transferred out of Border Patrol custody within 72 hours. But when shelter space is limited, they can get stuck in border detention centers for longer periods - as is happening now.

A U.S. official told Reuters that more than 3,600 migrant children were being held in U.S. border facilities as of the end of last week, more than four times the number in late February.

And as of Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services’ refugee office had approximately 8,800 unaccompanied children in custody.

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