Biden's other major blunder
President Joe Biden vowed to take a softer approach to illegal immigration but now faces accusations that many of the record numbers of migrant children in federal custody face neglect and abuse.
As a candidate, Biden promised not to rely on the harsh border policies, such as separating families so that parents could be prosecuted for illegal entry, to which former President Donald Trump had resorted. But Biden policies have indirectly led to family separations. In February, Biden decided not to send children south of the border immediately, similar to Trump's pandemic protocols. Thousands of more children began traveling to the border, forcing the government to hold them in custody. Unprepared for the surge, the federal government turned to private-sector contractors for help.
Now, more than 18,500 minors who arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border alone are now waiting in federal custody to be released to adults within the United States as of early this week. Of that number, 15,282 were in the care of Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement as of Monday. The previous record of 14,000 was set in 2019 during the Trump administration. The rest were held by the Border Patrol, which had 1,770 children under the age of 18 detained at its holding facilities as of Monday. That number peaked at more than 5,000 earlier this spring before the administration began moving children from Border Patrol stations to HHS shelters more quickly.
BORDER PATROL PICKS UP 834 MIGRANT CHILDREN ILLEGALLY SENT ACROSS BORDER IN SINGLE DAY, A RECORD
In other words, the Biden administration is holding more migrant children separated from their parents than did the Trump administration, which at one point intentionally separated migrant families.
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Biden is also dispersing people infected with the virus around the country, many of them to major cities in Texas like Austin, Dallas and Houston. Some of those cities have already become hotspots for the pandemic.
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