The crunch is driven by a record influx of people crossing the border and complicated by the Trump admin’s policies
Border Patrol detention centers are heading into the custody of a federal refugee agency that’s already struggling to feed and care for tens of thousands of minors.it is burning through cash to house children in military bases around the country, including one in Oklahoma that interned Japanese-Americans during World War II. On Tuesday, the agency even had to send 100 children back to a much-criticized Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, saying it lacks the room to take them.
centers lack soap, toothbrushes, clean bedding or other necessities for the children, some of them infants, in conditions that doctors, lawyers and public health experts call a potential breeding ground for disease. At least seven children have died in U.S. custody since September. The latest escalation of the border crisis comes as Congress is trying to complete the long-stalled border aid package. HHS Secretary Alex Azar for weeks has pushed Congress to fund an emergency $4.5 billion package that would provide nearly $3 billion to shore up his agency’s services for migrant children.
“We do not provide a ‘blank check’ to the administration to continue its punitive and failed immigration policies,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro ,who supports the bill, said at a House Rules Committee meeting on Monday. “This bill includes an unprecedented level of legal conditions to ensure the safety and protection of children in federal care.”
HHS said in an email that federal law requires it to scale back all activities not required for direct care and the safety of children because of the funding shortage. Three nonprofit shelter operators said they were also relying on emergency donors to provide funding for additional services.
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