Leaked HHS Documents Reveal True Extent of Biden's Border Crisis

Leaked documents from the Department of Health and Human Services revealed the overwhelming number of child migrants crossing the border and stretching the Biden administration’s resources. In the last week of February…

IJR SyndicatedMar 4, 20213 min read

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However, internal documents reviewed by

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showed that many children are staying in Border Patrol custody for longer than an average of three days, which is overwhelming the facilities.

The Biden administration is scrambling to find 20,000 beds to shelter the rapid influx of child migrants, Axios reported.

The number of migrant kids crossing the border is on pace to exceed the record by 45 percent and the administration does not have enough beds to shelter them all.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas insisted, however, that there is not a crisis at the border on Monday.

“There is a challenge at the border that we are managing,” he said, according to The Federalist.

“The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock seven days a week to ensure that we do not have a crisis at the border, that we manage the challenge, as acute as the challenge is.”

The HHS department is planning to update its current coronavirus protocols to make room for about 2,000 more kids and teens, an anonymous source told Axios.

The Department of Homeland Security projected there will be 117,000 unaccompanied child migrants crossing the border this year, but over 6,000 migrants at 16 and 17 years old were caught in just the last month.

The uptick comes after President Joe Biden reversed a Trump administration policy to quickly turn away migrants in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

According to Axios, the government faced a similar situation during the crises in 2014 and 2019 when the number of children crossing the border overwhelmed Immigration systems.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.