US will close 4 emergency shelters for migrant children

[corbe]

US will close 4 emergency shelters for migrant children

By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press  1 hr ago

U.S. officials will close four emergency facilities set up to house record numbers of migrant children crossing the Mexican border alone but cautioned Tuesday that minors were still arriving.

The Department of Health and Human Services will shut two facilities in Texas and two at convention centers in California by early August, Aurora Miranda-Maese, juvenile coordinator for the agency's office of refugee resettlement, said during a court hearing about custody conditions for migrant children.

Four of the large-scale shelters will remain open, including one that has faced criticism from immigrant advocates at Fort Bliss Army Base in El Paso, Texas, she said. Others are in Albion, Michigan; Pecos, Texas; and Pomona, California, she said.

U.S. officials have reported a recent drop in the number of children held in emergency facilities, including a more than 40% decline at Fort Bliss since mid-June. Miranda-Maese said more children are being released to relatives in the U.S. or being sent to state-licensed shelters, which have a higher standard of care.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-will-close-4-emergency-shelters-for-migrant-children/ar-AALB0d2?ocid=msedgntp

[PeteS in CA]

San Diego and Long Beach will be allowed to clean and refurbish their convention centers? That'll probably take 6-12 months! And the Feds probably won't pay a dime.

[mountaineer]

Biden Admin Will Shift Nearly $1 Billion In COVID Funds To Pay To House Migrant Children At The Border
By  Emily Zanotti
Jul 7, 2021 

The Biden administration will “relocate” $860 million in funds meant for COVID-19 relief programs to the Health and Human Services department in order to cover the cost of housing the thousands of child migrants who remain in United States custody.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra defended the switch in a letter to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees Wednesday. Becerra claimed that “his department needed the funds to ensure the safety of unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the border,” according to a report in the New York Post.  “They also need to cover costs associated with staffing at shelters for these children, Becerra wrote.”

According to Bloomberg News, which broke the story, “HHS’ costs for housing unaccompanied migrant children had gone up by $1.7 billion as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to precautions the government needed to take,” thereby justifying the use of COVID-19 relief funds for what would typically be considered an immigration issue. ...

Although the Biden administration celebrated a “massive drop” in the number of children in CBP custody in May, after the number of children custody hit a high of 22,500, many of those kids were simply transferred from CBP to HHS, where they were placed in separate detention facilities beyond the reach of immigration courts, which placed limits on how long children and families can remain in immigration authorities’ custody.

CBS News reported, two weeks ago, that around 14,000 children remain in U.S. custody in some form, most in HHS’ temporary detention sites, and many in a “large tent complex at the Fort Bliss U.S. Army base,” where they are enduring difficult conditions, “isolation,” and “despair,” and where they are beyond the reach of journalists who have “made several requests” to visit the site. ...

Full story at Daily Wire

[DCPatriot]

"...at the border", my ass.

They're dropping them off immediately in Red and Purple States...skipping the border stay.

[libertybele]

"...at the border", my ass.

They're dropping them off immediately in Red and Purple States...skipping the border stay.

 

[Hoodat]

Biden Admin Will Shift Nearly $1 Billion In COVID Funds To Pay To House Migrant Children At The Border

Explain to me how Biden can do this when Trump was blocked from using DoD funds to seal the border.