more americans into virtual lockdown. over 75 million people in new york, california, illinois, and connecticut ordered to stay at home. the great shutdown of 2020 is underway. there are about 37,000 migrants being held at ice detention facilities, and concerns about the rights and health of migrants are growing as the coronavirus continues to spread across the us and the globe. what we re seeing is people that are terrified, people that are detained together in big groups. the ice detention centers, they re no different than a jail. it s really terrible to begin with, and then when you add in an enormous public health crisis, these places are totally ill-equipped to deal with that situation. during covid, we ve sought to accelerate what we typically do, which is partner with community organizations, people that are directly impacted by ice s conduct,
we have a crisis with title 42 in place, right? what about putting back to remain in mexico program which was a game changer for the trump administration. people can still claim asylum. they will wait in mexico for the hearing date. a game changer. the courts haven t shut that down. if they really want to secure the border and save american lives from drug overdoses and migrant lives and care about these people dying in the freezing weather in texas, why not put the remain in mexico program back in place until congress figures how to fix it. joe biden ran on open borders. this isn t incompetence or mismanagement. it is by design. he ran on open borders. when you say i will put a moratorium on deportations and shut down ice detention facilities and award amnesty and free medical care. when you take those promises the most vulnerable people in the
behind this these price increases, but evidently now it s climate change and that s why this is going to reduce inflation somehow it s insanity again. it s that it s the policies of the democrat party no matter what they call it. it s their policies. there s their massive spending agenda, the radical climate change green new deal agenda that s caused inflation. the american people have caught on to it. they don t need to be educated . they get it. and i really do believe election day is going to prove it. yeah, i think the one point five billion dollars for planting trees in urban areas, i just this country cannot keep doing that sort of garbage. you just really can t. congressman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. all right. we re seeing record number of illegals crossing the border. so why are some of our ice detention facilities nearly empty? tom home and a branded jodhaa
brought you a couple weeks ago, on how an american with family in russia was able to get his grandmother out. there she is. and ukrainian fleeing the war are ending up in i.c.e. detention facilities.
$155 million of that will come from the fema disaster relief fund. in a statement, dhs making the case for reprogramming, saying i.c.e. has already had to increase the number of detention beds above what congress funded, without additional funding for single adult detention beds and transportation from the u.s. border patrol, the i.c.e. detention facilities, i.c.e. will not be able to support the influx of migrants from customs and border protection apprehension. money is moved around or reprogrammed within or across to part with all the time. for example, in august of 2014, responding to the central american migrant crisis, the obama administration, in the height of hurricane season, notified congress that dhs was reprogramming a total of $405 billion, including $267.6 million from the fema disaster relief fund. additionally, $31.5 million from the u.s. coast guard maintenance projects was being reprogrammed. that money was used in part to