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FEMA deployed to help process migrant children amid overcrowding in border facilities
[CBS] The Biden administration on Saturday instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help process the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children entering U.S. border custody amid reports of overcrowding in holding facilities.Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced he has ordered FEMA to help U.S. immigration officials receive and shelter migrant minors crossing the southern border without parents or legal guardians for the next 90 days. The deployment of FEMA officials illustrates the formidable logistical and humanitarian test the Biden administration is facing at the U.S.-Mexico border due to a sharp increase in the number of migrant children being taken into custody in recent weeks. Related: Federal Emergency Management Agency: 2020-09-15 President Donald J. Trump Approves Oregon Emergency Declaration Federal Emergency Management Agency: 2020-07-12 Trump Admin Tells Minnesota Governor To Get Bent Over $16 Million Aid Request Following Riots Federal Emergency Management Agency: 2020-07-11 Trump Tells Minnesota Governor to Go Jump In a Lake, Denies Request for ‘Disaster' Relief After Riots Related: Unaccompanied children: 2021-03-04 Documents show strained capacity at US border facilities: CNN Unaccompanied children: 2021-02-28 Surge of 13,000 Central American minors to US border expected in May Unaccompanied children: 2021-02-28 Biden's getting exactly the border crisis he asked for Posted by: Besoeker 2021-03-14 |
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