Breitbart News reports that Joe Biden will spend $86 million to pay for hotel rooms for border crossers.
The Joe Biden Administration has awarded a taxpayer-funded contract to pay for hotel rooms for border crossers arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will pay a Texas-based nonprofit organization to provide $86 million worth of hotel rooms for about 1,200 families crossing the southern border for six months, according to an Axios report. The DHS confirmed the arrangement.
The hotel rooms will be in Arizona and Texas near the southern border and will serve as welcome centers for border crossers, Axios reported. The Biden administration hopes to release them quickly into the interior of the United States.
Detention facilities along the southern border are already being converted into similar welcome centers for border crossers, where adults and children are released within 72 hours. The administration hopes to welcome about 120,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) into the United States this year.
In addition, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is spending $110 million on “eligible local nonprofit and government organizations and state facilities that have assisted or will assist” border crossers apprehended and released into the interior of the United States.
This week, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas confirmed to lawmakers that the agency has been releasing border crossers into the interior of the United States who have not been tested for and found to be carrying the coronavirus, a Chinese communist virus.
Federal officials told the media that “unaccompanied alien children” at one particular facility had an 11 percent positive rate for the coronavirus – nearly twice the Texas average. Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) called the coronavirus outbreak at the facility “unacceptable and inhumane.
In February, nearly 100,000 border crossers were arrested at the southern border, a 170 percent increase over the same month last year. Since October 2020, the number of illegal immigrants who have successfully crossed the border undetected has exceeded 118,000, Breitbart News exclusively reported.
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