Undocumented immigrant children arrive in the town of Panitas, Texas.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its latest statistics on March 8, noting that nearly 19,000 undocumented children and minors, some as young as three years old, were seized after being smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied by adults in March, a record number for a single month. The Biden administration is spending at least $60 million a week to care for more than 16,000 illegal immigrant youths in HHS shelters.
The Associated Press reports that since the Biden administration took office, immigration policies have changed and Central American residents are moving in large numbers toward the U.S.-Mexico border; as the Biden administration decided to suspend immediate deportation of undocumented children during the epidemic, more and more undocumented children are pouring in from the U.S.-Mexico border. The case will be processed.
Statistics show that CBP seized 18,890 unaccompanied children and youths last month, a record high for a single month; the previous two record highs were 11,475 in May 2019 and 16,200 in June 2014.
According to statistics, CBP seized 9,457 undocumented children and youth in February this year, compared to 3,221 in March last year.
In March, CBP processed more than 172,000 illegal immigrants attempting to enter the country from the Southwest, a 71 percent increase from February.
The Associated Press noted that a significant number of unaccompanied children and teenagers smuggled alone, some children as young as three years old; the U.S.-Mexico border area to accommodate undocumented immigrants in overcrowded shelters, the federal government to solve the resettlement, child care and other issues, the hands of a frenzy.
“The Washington Post analyzed government information and reported that the record-breaking influx of undocumented minors at the border in the past few weeks has led the Department of Health to quickly create 7,700 additional beds, and the cost of caring for a child is about $290 per day, and $60 million per week to care for at least 16,000 undocumented youth or children.
The 16,000 temporary beds are divided among at least ten large emergency agencies that call in space and equipment from oil employee dormitories or military bases to house small undocumented clients, with about 8,500 still living in temporary centers and at least 4,000 waiting to be transferred to other local holding centers.
CBP is required by law to transfer unaccompanied children to Department of Health facilities after 72 hours of detention, which are better suited for long-term care of minors until they are transferred to the homes of relatives or sponsors in the U.S. But 39 people in the Donna, Texas, tent area stayed for 15 days.
Department of Health data show that the average stay of youth and children in DHHS facilities is 31 days, and the government spends about $24,000 per child in a temporary facility, not including the time they spend in Border Patrol facilities.
Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for the Department of Health’s Administration for Children and Families, said temporary centers are at least 2.5 times more expensive than permanent shelters because of the need to quickly provide equipment and hire a large number of staff in a short period of time, and based on past experience, the average daily cost of caring for each child in a temporary center is about $775.
Fox News (Fox News) 8 reported that some Texas ranches near the U.S.-Mexico border have been found over the past year with the bodies of stowaways in the ranch, leaving ranchers distressed. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
Jones said the ranch in the past year found two or three stowaways remains, “I have a neighbor in the past ten years, every year in the ranch found nearly ten bodies”. He said the dead are mostly adult males.
Jones said that women and children who can apply for asylum are “taken away in a carload for resettlement”, and male smugglers who cannot apply for asylum can only seek relatively dangerous ways, “there is a climate of fear here, the situation is very scary”.
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