Don't call them cages!

[GURPS]

What Crisis? NASA Asks Employees To House Unaccompanied Migrant Children





Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki has repeatedly told reporters that there is no crisis at the border.

There is no surge at the border, people are merely “presenting” at the border.

They aren’t keeping kids in cages at the border, they are keeping them in “soft-sided structures” that they can’t leave.

While the people currently running this country have become the living embodiment of a CNN “mostly peaceful protests” meme, the crisis has continued to grow exponentially with no end in site. The Biden Administration is rumored to be in a bit of chaos behind the scenes as they struggle to message the deluge of illegal aliens currently streaming over the border on a daily basis.

The federal government is apparently looking at commandeering NASA facilities to place this unending stream of illegal immigrants. The internal memo asked for NASA employees to volunteer to staff facilities and to possibly house illegal immigrant children.

Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking interested candidates to serve up to a 120-day voluntary deployment detail as part of the HHS, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Unaccompanied Children (UC) Program, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and HHS are calling upon our Federal Agency family of exception public servants to lend support to this humanitarian effort through this detail opportunity. This opportunity provides a continuum of care for children, including placements in foster care, shelter and residential care providers that provide temporary housing and to assist with caring for and placing children without legal immigration status…

 

[Hijinx]

Put them on the next Mars Mission.

 

[GURPS]

Biden Playing Shell Games With Illegal Kids at the Border


The Biden administration said last week that it had gotten better control of the surge of illegal immigrant children crowding immigration facilities at the border.

That’s a true statement. What the administration didn’t bother to mention was the fact that the reason they had better control is that they’re playing a shell game with the illegals, moving them from overcrowded border patrol facilities to shelters operated by HHS. Those shelters — in convention centers along the border — are now even more crowded than the CBP detention centers they left.

New York Times:

In all, over the past week, more than 21,000 children were living in shelters under government care, leaving the shelters around 80 percent full. A shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas has a capacity of 2,270 — and a caseload of 1,990. The San Diego Convention Center’s 1,450 beds are all taken. The Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio is 90 children away from its 2,100 limit and announced on Friday it would stop taking in migrant children after this month. The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center is similarly full, according to the document.
According to the document, a $366 million shortfall hits this month “and grows quickly through July.” Officials project the cost for the entire 2021 fiscal year could be higher than $8 billion.

If they’re going to stay, the kids are probably better off in the convention centers. It’s better than sleeping on the floor with only a tinfoil blanket. But rather than try to change the perception that border-crossers will be turned back immediately, the Biden administration appears to be preparing for an even greater influx of new arrivals.

Biden Playing Shell Games With Illegal Kids at the Border

pjmedia.com

 

[Hijinx]

8 Billion to take care of the kids that a 5 billion dollar fence was stopping.

That makes sense to someone.
The biggest thing is that the 8 billion is just a down payment , we will be sup[porting these kids for years and many more that haven't arrived yet

 

[GURPS]

Biden Is Keeping Migrant Kids In Horrible Conditions. Where Is The Outcry?


One of the lawyers who has been visiting these emergency shelters, Leecia Welch, told the Times that conditions at Fort Bliss are “much worse in every respect” than Tornillo. The tents reek of body odor, the bedding is not washed regularly, the children do not have clean clothes and “generally describe not feeling cared for and a sense of desperation.”

Welch also visited an emergency shelter set up in a warehouse in Houston that abruptly closed in mid-April because of subpar living conditions. Welch interviewed 16 girls who stayed there, and she told CBS News that they reported being constantly hungry and thirsty, being served undercooked chicken and expired food, and having limited access to showers and laundry. Some said they had only showered twice in 15 days. There were no educational activities, no access to the outdoors, and nothing to do during the day.

At an emergency HHS shelter inside the convention center in Dallas and set to close next week, the situation is similar: there is no access to the outdoors, no exterior windows, and bright fluorescent lights that never turn off. According to a CBS News report, as of the end of April about 300 migrant boys had been there for more than 50 days.

It’s not just Texas. One 10-year-old girl in an HHS emergency shelter in Erie, Pa., told Welch there was no heat in some rooms and not enough clothes for the children. There were gas leaks inside and outside where the kids were living, and the facility was woefully understaffed. It closed on April 26.

None of these places are open to the public, and no media organizations have been granted access to them — a departure from Trump’s policy of allowing broad press coverage of the crisis, including the shelters. So accounts like Welch’s are all we have, for now.

 

[Hijinx]

This is all part of the Biden plan to stop illegal immigration.

Make life in these camps so bad that others will not want to come here. It may work, but I doubt it.
Of course the answer is to send these kids back to the country they came from, where they bathed daily had nice clothes and ate Wagyu steak every day.

 

[GURPS]

Secret Recordings Reveal Officials Discussing 'Filthy' Conditions of 4,632 Immigrant Kids Held in Texas Tent Camp

More than 4,500 immigrant children and teens are being held in enormous, filthy tents on a military base in Texas without access to basic necessities, including underwear, according to interviews, photos, documents, and recordings obtained by Reason. Hundreds of senior federal employees from various agencies have been detailed to the facility, where they are being highly compensated to perform tasks for which they have little training or direction.

"If you took a poll, probably about 98 percent of the federal workers here would say it's appalling," a federal employee detailed to the facility told Reason. "Everybody tries in their own way to quietly disobey and get things done, but it can be difficult."

The shelter, which is largely populated by teenage boys, is housed at Fort Bliss, an Army base near El Paso, where the harsh desert climate is used to simulate conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq. As other shelters are being shut down, the Fort Bliss shelter is swelling. In theory, these shelters are a way station for kids who are waiting to be reunited with relatives or other connections in the United States. In fact, staffing problems and other issues have left many kids stuck in limbo for up to a month or more.

 

[Monello]

Funny how the cages are now acceptable since Trump is no longer president.

 

[Grumpy]

I thought they were called "border shelters" nowadays.

 

[Monello]

I thought they were called "border shelters" nowadays.

I think the media calls them NOT CAGES.

 

[RoseRed]

I thought they were called "border shelters" nowadays.

Shell game.

 

[Grumpy]

I think the media calls them NOT CAGES.

Partitioned areas??

 

[GURPS]

Funny how the cages are now acceptable since Trump is no longer president.

the migrant containment is not a cage .... it is a soft side demarcation .... or they get moved outside to tents .... surrounded by chain link fence

but is is NOT a Cage

 

[DaSDGuy]

the migrant containment is not a cage .... it is a soft side demarcation .... or they get moved outside to tents .... surrounded by chain link fence

but is is NOT a Cage

Those cages would have been more acceptable if Obama had put in carpeted floors and cable tv when HE built them.

 

[RoseRed]

Border Patrol looking to build another facility in El Paso to process migrant children, families: report
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is aiming to build a facility in El Paso, Texas, capable of holding nearly 1,000 detainees amid an influx in migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a report says.
The agency asked the city of El Paso in December to sell 60 acres of land belonging to a water utility – with an assessed value of around $431,000 – near Highway 54 to create a "Central Processing Center," according to documents viewed by the El Paso Times. If built, the facility would be the second of its kind in the Texas border city.
Border Patrol looking to build another facility in El Paso to process migrant children, families: report | Fox News

 

[Sneakers]

Think of all the money that could be saved of he would just close thee border. And how many families and children wouldn't be subjected to these horrendous conditions.

 

[GURPS]

Think of all the money that could be saved

millions a day in hotel rentals

 

[Monello]

Think of all the money that could be saved of he would just close thee border. And how many families and children wouldn't be subjected to these horrendous conditions.

They already know the conditions before they get here. It still doesn't stop them from coming.

 

[GURPS]

Lawsuit Says Conditions Inside Biden Administration's Shelters for Migrant Teens Are 'Inherently Unsafe'


Following reports by Reason and other media outlets, and complaints from federal whistleblowers, lawyers representing minors in U.S. immigration custody say the Biden administration is housing migrant youths in "inherently unsafe and inappropriate" conditions.

In a motion filed Monday asking a federal court to order the release of migrant youths from two of the Biden administration's so-called emergency intake sites (EIS), lawyers for the National Center for Youth Law argue that the substandard living conditions inside the sites violate the terms of the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement. That agreement binds the federal government to certain standards regarding the treatment of migrant children.

The main focus of the complaint is two emergency sites in Pecos, Texas, and inside the Fort Bliss Army base near El Paso, Texas. The Fort Bliss site is the largest in the network of emergency shelters the Biden administration set up earlier this year to move unaccompanied migrant children out of Customs and Border Protection detention centers.