Dissension Growing Inside the Biden Administration Over Border Problems — Susan Rice Points Finger o

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Dissension Growing Inside the Biden Administration Over Border Problems — Susan Rice Points Finger of Blame
By Shipwreckedcrew | Apr 17, 2021 12:30 PM ET


Reuters is reporting on growing dissension inside the Biden Administration — dissension between the White House and federal agencies — over the slow pace of the agencies in resettling unaccompanied minors taken into custody after crossing the border.  This conflict is building at the same time — and may be in response to — worsening polling on the Administration’s handling of the crisis which is rapidly spiraling out of control. As detailed further below, it is hard to find a solution when thousands of new unaccompanied minors are apprehended each month, but only 300 are placed in quasi-permanent living arrangements each month.  That’s pretty much the functional equivalent of trying to hold back the ocean with a bucket.

op aides to President Joe Biden are ramping up pressure on the agency that shelters thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, voicing frustration that kids are not being released quickly enough from detention, three U.S. officials said.

In daily calls with representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other agencies, White House officials have demanded HHS speed up releases from its overloaded shelter system to free up space for children packed into crowded border patrol stations, the officials said. HHS is in charge of housing the migrant children and vetting potential U.S. sponsors, often parents and close relatives, who seek to take them in.

You don’t have to look far to find the obvious cause for this building friction between the White House and the federal bureaucracy.

Back on March 31, at the height of the momentary press coverage of the situation on the border regarding the housing and care of unaccompanied minors, Biden’s polling numbers on immigration dipped significantly.  Morning Consult’s polling released that day showed a nearly 10 point decline in just two weeks.

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https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2021/04/17/dissension-growing-inside-the-biden-administration-over-border-problems-susan-rice-pointing-finger-of-blame-n362471

[Hoodat]

Maybe HHS should set up mass orphanages for the federal government to raise these kids just like the National Socialists of Germany did in the 1930s.

[PeteS in CA]

If one reads/scans way down the article,

HHS officials worry that speeding up the vetting process too much could lead children to be released into unsafe situations, according to two of the three Biden administration officials.

Rice has “pressed consistently” for HHS to speed up its releases of children to make space in children’s shelters, said another of the three officials familiar with the matter. HHS efforts on that front have been inadequate, the person said, but are now improving.

HHS defenders say the criticism in meeting after meeting where HHS “is getting yelled at” is taking a toll on the staff.

IOW plain English, Rice is basically telling HHS, "(BLEEP) the kids' safety, just send them somewhere!"

[libertybele]

If one reads/scans way down the article,

IOW plain English, Rice is basically telling HHS, "(BLEEP) the kids' safety, just send them somewhere!"

Several states have opposed allowing kids to be placed in their states. 

Send them back across the border.