Psaki: The Administration Is Looking for ‘Additional Facilities’ To ‘Safely House’ Migrant Children

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says the Biden administration is looking for new facilities to house unattended migrant children who come to the U.S. border. 

Psaki was asked on Tuesday if the administration needs to revise its message on its 🛂Immigration policy to warn migrants that if they travel to the border, they will likely be turned away.

She responded, “We are continuing to work to convey to people in the region that this is not the time to come, that the majority of people who come to the border will be turned away. Which is factually accurate.”

However, she said that officials are letting unattended migrant children cross the border as she said officials determined that was the “most humane approach to addressing what are very difficult circumstances in the region.”

Officials are letting unattended minors cross the border and holding them in shelters until they can be reunited with their families.

“And that means, there are more children, kids under the age of 18 coming across the border,” she added.

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The Biden administration has implemented a policy to temporarily hold unattended migrant children in Border Patrol facilities until officials can locate their families to reunite them.

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