Per documents leaked to The Wall Street Journal and Axios, the administration estimates the number of unaccompanied minors crossing could rise from 16,000 this month to 26,000 in September. Why doesn’t VP Harris seem to be doing anything to solve what she now calls “a huge problem”? Bloomberg via Getty ImagesĪnd it’s going to get much worse.

They’re being held an average of 90 hours - though the legal limit is 72 - because there’s simply no room for them elsewhere. The feds already have an all-time high of more than 18,000 unaccompanied minors in custody, with about 5,500 held in temporary facilities not meant to house kids at all. After all, leaked administration documents show that frontline agencies expect the number of unaccompanied children crossing to soon double (again) to far above record levels. Maybe Harris decided she didn’t want the job. Huh? Did it really take nearly a week to set the record straight, or did the president change his mind? Why doesn’t Harris seem to be doing anything to solve what she now calls “a huge problem”? White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday “clarified” that the veep is only in charge of diplomacy to address the problem’s “root causes.” Yet her schedule doesn’t have a single immigration-related meeting.

President Joe Biden last week tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with leading the White House response to the near-record surge of migrants crossing the southern border. Thousands of migrants still flooding over the border from banned nations despite prez’s claims The week in whoppers: Homeland Security boss’ border bunk, Randi’s revisionism and moreĪdams’ migrant crisis blame: Letters to the Editor - April 21, 2023 Mexico ‘didn’t want to deal with Venezuelans’ after migrant fire ordered US to move them

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