Migrant children at border adds to GOP criticism of Joe Biden, whose immigration plan faces resistance Nicholas Wu and Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden s sweeping immigration bill he unveiled a month ago already faced long odds in a divided Senate, but a surge of child migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border has Republicans doubling down on their criticism of the president s plan.
Over the past several weeks, the Biden administration has seen an increase of unaccompanied migrant children to the border and has struggled to quickly move the children from short-term holding facilities to temporary facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The unaccompanied minors are spending an average of 117 hours in detention facilities, beyond the 72 hours allowed, according to a Department of Homeland Security document.