As crossings along the southern border reach near-record levels, the Biden government is considering taking migrants to states near the Canadian border, according to a report.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requested support from the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plane on Friday after 1,000 families of migrants and unaccompanied minors crossed the Rio Grande into southern Texas early Friday morning. , Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials told The Washington Post. Border agents still have another 1,000 migrants who were unable to sue last night, according to communications analyzed by the Post.
The backups at CBP are exacerbated by the nearly 4,500 unaccompanied children held in detention centers and tents on the border, many beyond the legal limit of three days.
The Biden government says the situation at the border is a “challenge”, not a “crisis”.
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During the record increase in the 2019 border under President Trump, the ICE transported migrants to other sectors of the border with the capacity to maintain them.
This crisis occurred during the warmer months, and it is not clear whether the CBP will be able to provide warmer clothing for families sent to states like Michigan, South Dakota and Montana. These facilities also have much less resources to receive migrants. The email seen by The Post indicates that CBP has not yet decided which facilities will receive migrants.
CBP has already used ICE aircraft to transport migrants from crowded facilities in the Rio Grande sector to neighboring El Paso.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Thursday that it will donate $ 110 million to organizations that provide food and shelter for migrants on the border.
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Most single adult migrants are still being expelled under Title 42, a CDC coronavirus health order, but new figures show that in February, CBP allowed most of the migrant families it encountered on the southwestern US border to remain in the country pending a decision on whether they will be allowed to stay permanently.
In February, there were 19,246 meetings in total with migrant families on the southern border. Of these meetings, 7,915 were expelled from the country.
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The agency found a total of 71,598 single aliens in February and initialized 64,108 of them under the Trump health order.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is visiting the southern border on Friday with a group of senators.
Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Said he “fought tears” when visiting an overcrowded establishment for migrant children.
“I just left the border processing facility. Hundreds of children huddled in large open rooms. In one corner, I fought back tears as a 13-year-old girl sobbed. [sic] explaining uncontrollably through a translator how terrified she was of being separated from her grandmother and without her parents, “he wrote on Twitter.