By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Associated Press | Published: May 5, 2021 Confronted with a stream of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico, the U.S. government has awarded shelter-construction and management contracts to private companies that critics say may not be equipped to adequately care for the minors. Some of the companies have responded to natural disasters and more recently developed quarantine centers at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Others have worked with U.S. border officials over the past few years to set up tented holding areas for migrants. The new shelters are needed as the government finds itself with more than 22,000 children in government custody and insufficient workers to help release them to family members.
U.S. awards huge shelter contracts amid child migrant increase By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press
Published: May 5, 2021, 8:48am
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8 Photos FILE - In this March 24, 2021, file photo, Fatima Nayeli, 13, center, talks to journalists as she holds the hand of her sister, Cynthia Stacy, 8, and Davidson Jair, 7, after they were smuggled on an inflatable raft across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas. All three children traveled from El Salvador in the hope of reaching relatives living in the U.S. Confronted with a stream of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico, the U.S. government has awarded shelter-construction and management contracts to private companies that critics say may not be equipped to adequately care for the minors. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
<p><span>WASHINGTON D. C. (May 5, 2021) - In another indication of the crisis on our Southern border, there is word that the Biden administration is spending billions of dollars to build new shelters for the thousands of illegals entering the country.</span></p>
US awards huge shelter contracts amid child migrant increase
by Adriana Gomez Licon, The Associated Press
Posted May 5, 2021 10:41 am EDT
Last Updated May 5, 2021 at 10:44 am EDT
Confronted with a stream of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico, the U.S. government has awarded shelter-construction and management contracts to private companies that critics say may not be equipped to adequately care for the minors.
Some of the companies have responded to natural disasters and more recently developed quarantine centres at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Others have worked with U.S. border officials over the past few years to set up tented holding areas for migrants.
Joe Biden Spending $1.6 Billion to Settle Migrant Youth, Children in U.S.
14 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden’s deputies have awarded contracts worth up to $1.6 billion dollars to help foreign children and teenagers settle in the United States.
The one-year contracts signed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) include a contract worth up to $530 million to Family Endeavors Inc. starting March 17, a contract worth up to $719 million with Deployed Resources Inc. starting March 19, and a contract worth up to $198 million to Rapid Deployment Inc.
The contracts were first noted by Axios.
A Breitbart search on a government database produced more hits, such as a $13.6 million contract for Southwest Key Programs Inc. Another contract worth up to $103 million went to General Dynamics Information Technology Inc.