Gabe gutierrez is the only journalist allowed inside today and he joins us momentarily. What he captured was an Intake Facility with tables with clothes and shoes lined up, staff and children moving about the site. The staff is near capacity, and this focus on the border comes as President Biden is facing his own version of the immigration challenge. Over 9,000 unaccompanied children detained on the border. On a month to month basis this is up 63 from last month. Today the new president tapping the Vice President to oversee solutions. I think the best thing to do is to put someone who when he or she speaks they dont have to wonder about, is that where the president is . When she speaks rs she speaks for me. If this all feels familiar, it is for many reasons. Number one, some of the International Issues from Central America up to mexico with immigration have been going on for many years. Number two, of course there is recent history. Immigration being a key fault line in the last admini
The Biden Transition Team and Government Officials began to sound the alarm to increase Shelter Space for Migrant Children whom they expected would soon be crossing the border in large numbers but the Trump Administration didnt take action until days before the inauguration according to two Biden Transition officials and a u. S. Official with knowledge of the discussions. They were sitting on their Hands A Transition Official told nbc news who doesnt currently work for the Biden Administration. It was incredibly frustrating. The report adds that as of february the department of health and Human Services was only able to use about half of the congressionally funded capacity with Covid Protocols and a shuttering of facilities. Because of those limits unaccompanied children are backlogged in stations. Their numbers reaching a record high of 5,200 children in custody last week with hundreds held past the threeday legal limit. That is the backdrop to news breaking this afternoon that biden