President Biden expects a Trump-era shelter for unaccompanied youth migrants that was reopened under his administration won’t be around for much longer.
The facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, was reopened because of the surging volume of unaccompanied children trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States, Biden said Friday.
“Right now, there’s thousands of unaccompanied children coming across the border,” the president told Univision. His administration has already been able to place “a significant number” of the children into shelters throughout the country, he added.
“Our hope and expectation is that won’t stay open very long and we’ll be able to provide for every kid that comes across the border safely to be housed in a facility that is licensed,” Biden said of the reopened facility.
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Biden said that what his administration is trying to do is connect migrant children “with families in this country” and “get them to the families that they came to see, or they are looking for.”
“We’ve already connected thousands of them [through] that way. So, that’s our hope, is to unite these children with families while they wait to have a hearing,” he said.
“This administration is doing it in a humane way,” first lady Jill Biden added. “And that’s really important. We want to make sure that these children are safe, that they get mental health services, they get physical health services, they get education. So, we are really concerned about these children.”
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Customs and Border Protection is reportedly expecting a peak of 13,000 unaccompanied migrant children to arrive at the border in May, a projection that surpasses the number that came at any month during the 2019 humanitarian crisis.
