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| Texas border city puts up temporary shelters to cope with ‘rapidly escalating' migrant surge | |
| 2021-08-05 | |
"Despite the City of McAllen and its community partners’ best efforts, the sheer number of immigrants being released into the city has become a crisis: a crisis the City of McAllen did not create and has proactively tried to avoid for seven years," the city said in a statement. The border town’s city commission approved setting up temporary emergency shelter for the "overwhelming number of immigrants stranded in McAllen by U.S. Customs and Border Protection." McAllen officials said the start of the current surge began in 2014 and has continued into 2021 — when the city has seen more than 87,000 migrants pass through. They said that, faced with a "rapidly escalating surge" of migrants, the city took action to "mitigate emergent health and safety risks." The embattled city described in its statement a situation in which migrants are being admitted into the U.S. after being detained only for a few days, and often without being tested for COVID-19 by the federal government. While many migrants are being returned via Title 42 public health protections, the Biden administration is not returning unaccompanied children and migrant families with small children. In what it calls an "unacceptable flaw" in the immigration system, McAllen officials said the burden has fallen on the local branch of Catholic Charities, which has established centers to provide families with essentials and help them contact family members or others already in the country. | |
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| #3 Zuckerberg Lobbyists Push Joe Biden to Kill COVID Border Restrictions |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-05 08:15 |
| #2 OK! Border Patrol... Texas has rounded up 100's if not 1000's and and has them all in one place... GO FOR IT Or be charged with Violation of your Oath of Office . It is a 1 to 5 year violation. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-08-05 07:54 |
| #1 Biden administration to offer COVID vaccines to migrants in U.S. custody along the Mexico border as number of people stopped reaches 20 year high |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-05 07:28 |