http://www.dailywire.com/news/border-official-warns-of-flood-of-unaccompanied-minors-families-coming-to-us-most-in-over-20-years
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official warned officers that the agency expects the highest number of children crossing into the U.S. from Mexico in over two decades.
The warning comes as the Biden administration plans to convert immigration facilities along the border into processing hubs in order to fast-track illegal immigrant families through to releasing them into the United States, according to The Washington Post. The Biden administration is struggling to handle an influx of illegal immigrant families and children. As the Post reports:
Russell Hott, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, notified staff of the rapid-processing plan in an email Thursday that said arrivals by unaccompanied minors and families this year “are expected to be the highest numbers observed in over 20 years.”
If U.S. border officials continue to take in more than 500 family members per day, the change in use to the family detention centers “may not be sufficient to keep pace with apprehensions,” Hott warned in his email, which was reviewed by The Post.
The Biden administration has taken a drastically different approach to immigration than either of the two prior administrations under former presidents Donald Trump or Barack Obama. Biden has emphasized processing and releasing illegal immigrants rather than detaining or barring them from entry. ...
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