1 May 2021
A news story published on Friday touted the Biden administration’s progress on the unaccompanied migrant children crisis at the border. An 84 percent drop in the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in Border Patrol custody was cited as the administration’s cause for celebration.
In a CNN news story, a White House official, speaking on a condition of anonymity, provided figures showing a reduction from 5767 unaccompanied children on March 28 to 954 as of April 28. These numbers reflect only the movement of the children from CBP custody to Health and Human Services (HHS) Emergency Intake Sites.
As reported by CNN, these statistics are consistent with data provided by HHS. However, they tell only a tiny piece of the story. The truth of the situation, according to HHS data is far from progress or success. In fact, no other statistic showed any reduction other than how many children were shuffled from CBP to HHS custody.
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Rep. John Katko of New York, the ranking Republican on the homeland security panel, said awarding the contract to Endeavors was a bungle that undercuts confidence in the Biden administration’s ability to fix the border situation.
He said Endeavors doesn’t have a record of working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one of the government agencies involved in handling illegal immigrant children, which makes it odd that the company was able to win the contract.
Mr. Katko also cited “alleged conflicts of interest between Endeavor’s leadership and the Biden administration.”
In their letter, the Republicans homed in on Endeavors’ move to appoint Andrew Lorenzen-Strait to the top federal affairs post at the company. Mr. Lorenzen-Strait, a former ICE official, was on the Biden transition team, and his hiring was announced on Jan. 20, the day Mr. Biden took office.