A criticism by President Biden of his predecessor about the conditions of the detention facilities for migrants in the United States may come back to haunt him.
Biden hammered Trump during the campaign on the conditions under which migrant children were kept.
“Trump’s immigration policies are an attack on human dignity. We are not a country that denies children soap and toothbrushes. We are not like that, ”wrote Biden in a July 2019 tweet.
In 2019, then-candidate Biden chased then-President Donald Trump online over conditions in detention centers that keep migrant children, as the Trump administration argued in defense of the federal court facilities.
Biden wrote that the Trump administration was “arguing” that the “detention centers” that held migrant children that Biden claimed to have “soap, toothbrushes or beds” were “‘safe and hygienic'”.
The president went on to call the Trump administration’s defense of facility conditions “a total attack on human dignity and our standards as a nation.”
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“We need to do better,” wrote the president, whose previous administration implemented the controversial detention facilities for migrant children.
But now it is the Biden government that defends the conditions of establishments for unaccompanied migrant children.
Recent reports have revealed that migrant children detained in a Border Patrol detention center in Donna, Texas, had to sleep on the floor and spend days without bathing due to overcrowding.
The Border Patrol facilities in Donna are designed to accommodate a maximum of 250 migrants. Reports point to the current number of residents among 1,800 migrants.
The United States also faces a historic increase in migrants trying to enter the country illegally on the southern border – a situation that the Biden government has refused to call a “crisis”.
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The massive influx of migrants has prompted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ask for volunteers to help with the crisis.
A recent video posted on social media showed a line of migrants waiting on the other side of Rio Grande, Texas, as the crisis continues to escalate.