Biden Administration Floats Boosting Permanent Workforce to Process Migrant Children

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Republicans blast current approach, including deployment of feds across government to the border.
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Lawmakers and a top Biden administration official traded barbs Thursday over who was responsible for an uptick in migrants arriving at the southern border and how to use federal personnel to confront the situation.
Homeland Security Department Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his approach, highlighting the reduction in migrant children being held in Border Patrol facilities. The Biden administration has worked aggressively to transfer children from DHS custody to the Health and Human Services Department and on to legal sponsors, tapping the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stand up additional housing units. DHS has slashed the number of unaccompanied children who arrived at the border and remained in Border Patrol custody from nearly 6,000 at its peak earlier this year to less than 500 on Thursday. 

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