A Customs and Border Protection patrol station in Clint, Texas, U.S., June 26, 2019.
The website Axios reported Wednesday (Feb. 24) that as of 8:15 a.m. Sunday (21), more than 700 child smugglers, all unaccompanied by their Parents, had been illegally crossed into the United States from Mexico and detained by Border Patrol, according to an internal Customs and Border Protection document they obtained.
The newspaper reported that this phenomenon indicates that President Biden is brewing a refugee crisis at the border. The Biden Administration should have discovered that it is easier to talk about preventing children from being put in cages at the southern border than to solve the problem.
Biden has made the biggest moves on immigration policy since taking office, taking a series of steps to call a halt to Trump-era (Trump) policies. Biden ordered a halt to the construction of a wall along the southern border, an end to the travel ban, and an easing of refugee policies, including the Trump Administration‘s “Stay in Mexico” Migrant Protection Protocols (MPPs), which began in January 2019 and are designed to prevent Central American refugees from entering the United States on the grounds of political asylum.
Republicans have warned Biden that his immigration policy will result in large numbers of refugees choosing to move north in anticipation of a loosening of U.S. enforcement and asylum policies.
Some experts now say that Biden’s reversal of Trump’s immigration policy is partly responsible for the recent increase in the number of unaccompanied children arriving at the border, and that the U.S. fears another wave of unaccompanied child refugees from Central America in the Obama era.
The number of illegal entries at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing generally peaks only in the spring, and it’s only February and the number has already soared to 700.
Of the more than 700 unaccompanied Central American minors awaiting transfer to shelters under the supervision of the U.S. Department of health, more than 200 have already been held at border patrol stations for more than 48 hours.
According to this internal document, nine minors who entered the country illegally have been detained beyond the agreed upon 72-hour limit.
The Biden administration has been forced to open a temporary influx shelter for these children in Texas due to the limited number of children the Department of Health oversees in shelters that can accept illegal aliens due to the Communist virus outbreak.
A government official revealed that the shelters waiting to accept these illegal alien children are already operating at high capacity. More than four hundred children who entered the country illegally were referred to Department of Health shelters on Tuesday (23) alone, a number more than 100 higher than the 30-day average number of referrals (294) during the 2019 refugee peak.
At a White House media briefing on Wednesday, spokeswoman Jen Psaki acknowledged that some of the illegal-entry, unaccompanied children have been in Customs and Border Protection custody for four or five days or more.
She blamed some of the delays on last week’s bad weather in Texas, saying some long-term shelters “don’t have the power and the capacity to take these kids and house them safely.
Psaki also argued that the current administration handles children differently than past administrations. Although Biden is using the same “cages” as the Trump administration (the cages were first created by the Obama administration) to hold the children, a Biden administration spokeswoman denied that they are the same as the Trump administration, saying that it is an open facility and that the children are not being held in cages.
In addition, the Biden administration called off the emergency health order that prohibits the rapid deportation of illegal foreign child smugglers crossing the border.
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