AFP Reuters reported that the U.S. authorities have been criticized for keeping migrant children in overcrowded shelters for long periods of Time as the number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into the U.S. has soared and shelters are overflowing. So the U.S. President Joe Biden‘s administration ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help deal with the problem on the 13th.
The Biden Administration, which has been in office for nearly 2 months, is facing pressure from increased immigration. His refusal to continue former President Trump‘s zero tolerance policy for undocumented immigrants appears to have encouraged immigrants to try to enter the United States. As soon as adult immigrants and families are caught, they will still be sent back to Mexico, but U.S. authorities will dispose of the unaccompanied children and assist them to stay with their relatives in the United States.
Currently, the U.S. Department of health and Human Services (HHS) is reportedly holding about 8,800 migrant children, with hundreds more under the control of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and people continue to enter the country every day. In February of this year alone, CBP detained 9,457 unaccompanied migrant children at the southern border. The sites are now overcrowded, and the Epidemic restrictions add to the challenges for authorities.
The federal government is responding to record numbers of arrivals at the southwest border, including unaccompanied (incoming) children, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, to step in to support the thousands of children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border unaccompanied. The agency’s general mission is to respond to floods, storms and other major disasters. The agency has been ordered to participate in a 90-day operation to ensure that the children are safely sheltered and transferred to someone who can care for them, typically a relative already living in the United States.
The number of migrants seized at the U.S.-Mexico border has continued to increase since April 2020, as violence, natural disasters, Food shortages and poverty in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America continue to persist.
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