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Republican Governors Block Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Young unaccompanied migrants ages 3 to 9 watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. Law enforcement encountered over 18,000 unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border in March, more than any other month on record.
Dario Lopez-Mills
The Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas The federal foster care system was unprepared to house the record nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children who came to the United States in March, so the Biden administration asked some states to temporarily house them.
here in florida. and this is a controversial intake facility for housing immigrant children, and the only of its kind, and the only one of its kind run by a for-profit corporation which is in itself very controversial, and elizabeth warren is discussing the topic and handling of these centers. last friday, i drafted a plan to end the private incarceration of our children in the facilities like this. and part of the reason is because this is wrong. i would end all private incarceration systems. locking people up for money is not what the united states of america should do. and joining me now is al c cardenas and former adviser to jeb bush, and also, a joining us is a lecture from the university of austin, and thank you, both.
hours after jacqueline s death, her father still coping with the loss was asked by the c.a.p. to sign documents in english denotes the level of unfairness and indecency. that is the father of the 7-year-old girl from guatemala, and joining me is julia ainsley and also reporter who has been all over this. this tragedy is a symbol and the emblem of the larger problem, and they are closinging down the intake facility or shortchanging them on the staff iing and the asylum seekers are driven to go illegally into much more dangerous place, and also not staffing these other border points with with the proper medical care. that is right.
question of her choosing is not right. and these press conferences, journalists are the ones who get to choose what they ask about, not the subject, not the president. well, we re going to have to leave it there for now. this is a subject that is front and center, not only today but throughout this week, as we head towards this vote, that they say is going to be this week. thank you, phil rucker. thank you, bill krystal. at least two packages at a department of defense mail processing center are suspected of possibly containing ricin, a deadly material. the facility is not located inside the pentagon building. it is inside the intake facility where the packages were addressed to someone there. the fbi has taken the lead now on the investigation. we should expect a statement from them shortly and we ll be right back. d we ll be right back how your skin feels. so, when the world expects you to follow the rules, write your own.
whether when we travel with her. she asked whether the kids can contact their families via the phone. she asked about their emotional health, what they go through when they are processed. she spent time with these kids in classrooms as most of them were learning, practicing english, working on their studies. she spent time asking where they were from, how old they were. nothing so much specifically how do you feel, how has it been without your family. she didn t touch on that. she did, of course, provide a bright light or some caring element that so far hands on this administration has not demonstrated and physically having someone go down there and then unfortunately, we were supposed to go to another facility, an intake facility where families are together. this is where they are processed right away after crossing the border. there was flash flooding in that area. the sweet streets were flooded.