EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich invites Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on a tour of the Southwest Border, saying conditions in the midst of the severe crisis pose a ‘clear threat’ for the health of migrants and Americans.
“I am writing with an important invitation to take you with me for a tour of the southwestern border in Arizona, on earlier availability,” Brnovich wrote to Becerra in a letter obtained by Fox News. “There can be no doubt that the conditions here now pose a clear threat to the health of Arizonans, Americans and the thousands of undocumented immigrants who enter our country every day.”
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The Biden has a borderline crisis and an increase in migrants surpassed in recent memory – with more than 172,000 migrant encounters in March.
While Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was at the forefront of the crisis, HHS also played an important role due to the dramatic increase in unaccompanied child migrants – which will eventually end up in the care of HHS.
The agency quickly opened facilities along the border to deal with the influx of minors, while also reducing the capacity constraints of the COVID period. While single adults and some migrant families are being returned by Title 42 health protection in the Trump era, the Biden government is not applying it to unaccompanied children.
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Images of migrants packed into overcrowded facilities drew widespread criticism, although the Biden administration blamed the Trump administration for not doing enough to prepare for the boom. Republicans said the liberalization of border and immigration policies under President Biden encouraged migrants to make the journey north.
In his letter, Brnovich says the images in facilities “seem inconsistent with all the precautions we have been told are necessary to prevent the spread of the deadly pandemic.”
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“My sincere hope is that we can see together what is really happening at the border, talk to the people on the front lines, and that [HHS] can help ensure that Arizona does everything possible to protect the well-being of Americans as well as undocumented immigrants, ”he writes.
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The letter follows after Brnovich wrote to Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week inviting her on a similar tour across the border for a ‘first-hand’ look at the crisis.
Harris is Biden’s most important person in addressing the root causes of the crisis, but has not visited the border so far. The White House said it was engaged in “high-level diplomatic work” to resolve the crisis.