A Honduran migrant boy stands next to a fence at a shelter in Mexico on Feb. 14, 2019.
An increasing number of unaccompanied minors have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, and the U.S. Department of health and Human Services (HHS) reported last week that its children’s facilities are nearing capacity. The White House insists there is no crisis at the border, but the Biden administration won’t allow media tours of migrant children’s facilities.
A media spokesman told The Daily Caller, a conservative website, that members of the media are unable to visit the immigration detention center near the southern border where minors are held.
A spokesperson for the HHS-affiliated Administration for Children and Families (ACF) told The Daily Caller that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is currently not allowing media to visit the facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, used to house unaccompanied children due to the pandemic of the Chinese Communist virus (COVID-19). Carrizo Springs, Texas, which houses unaccompanied children. However, it later added that the media will be notified once press tours resume.
On Sunday, former President Trump sharply criticized Biden’s immigration policies. But on Monday, when asked if he thought there was a crisis at the border, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the White House, saying, “The answer is no.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Carrizo Springs facility is privately managed and not subject to the same standards as other government facilities, which has drawn strong criticism from many immigration activists. The facility, which used to house oil field workers, has been converted to accommodate unaccompanied immigrant children.
A photo published by The Washington Post shows migrant children being held in huts about the size of shipping containers with barred windows and rusty air conditioners.
In fact, these immigration facilities are the same ones used by the Trump Administration. During the Trump administration, the media mostly described children at the border as “children in cages,” while under Biden, the mainstream media used terms like “child immigration facilities.
The facility was initially opened in June 2019 under the Trump administration and has been criticized by Democrats. The Department of Health and Human Services declined to say how the immigrants would be treated differently under the Biden Administration, according to the Daily Wire.
In January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detained 5,900 unaccompanied immigrant children, and the number is expected to rise to 13,000 in May, according to the U.S. news site Axios.
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