EXCLUSIVE: Fox News received the first photo taken from the El Paso Service Processing Center in Texas, dated March 8, of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).
The photo, which shows a mother and two children, who were transported to El Paso by the authorities of the Rio Grande Valley sector, comes after Biden’s Home Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas visited the El Paso facility on Friday with visited a dual group of senators.
“Currently, we are experiencing a large number of encounters in the West Texas / New Mexico region. These encounters include unaccompanied families and children,” El Paso sector CBP chief Gloria Chavez said in a statement. told Fox News about the current situation there. “The highest population for the El Paso sector is unaccompanied children with a 96% increase compared to February 2020, year-to-date.
A migrating family transported from the Rio Grande Valley to the El Paso, Texas, Sector Border Patrol Central Processing Center receives an initial health check by a contractor overseeing the health and well-being of family units and minor minors there . (Photo: US Border Patrol)
Border agents encountered more than 3,300 undocumented, unaccompanied children in the El Paso region this fiscal year. There has been a nationwide 64% increase in the number of migrant children coming to the U.S., Fox 40 Sacramento reported.
There were 30,077 borders in February 2020. In February this year, CBP encountered 100,441 migrants on the southern border – an increase of 28% compared to January 2021 – and carried out 72,113 evictions. According to CBP, the number of encounters at the border has been increasing since April 2020.
One migrant who spoke to Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins on Friday said the flow of migrants coming to the border would never stop.
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CBP cannot expel children under U.S. law, so they are temporarily detained in facilities such as those in northeastern El Paso, with a capacity of 1,040 migrants. The El Paso plant and others on the southern border extend to the extreme, creating pressure conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic, as the Biden government works to find more space and resources for those coming to the border.
“The recent increase in unaccompanied children, in addition to family units, is beginning to affect our capacity,” Chavez said. “We work closely with Health and Human Services [HHS]Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for the placement of children because CBP’s ability to move children out of their care is directly linked to the space available at HHS ORR. “
A migrating family crosses the border into El Paso, Texas, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo / Christian Chavez, file)
She added that the sector has received El Paso since March 8 for a varying number [of] family units daily from the South Texas region. ‘
“We are very fortunate to have such a diverse group of people with different missions aware of the COVID 19 pandemic, working closely as a community, both in Mexico and the USA, to address national security responsibilities, health and “to balance the well-being of each other, our staff and those under our supervision, and to keep our communities safe,” Chavez said.
Meanwhile, Mayorkas did not have questions from the press during his visit to the El Paso facility, where he received an information session on the processing, shelter and transfer of unaccompanied children, according to DHS.
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He and the senators’ delegation also visited the new central processing center in El Paso, “where children and families are processed and sheltered without guidance before being transferred to health and human services,” DHS said.
While the number of months at the border has been increasing – especially of unaccompanied children (UACs) and family units – it has increased since President Biden took office. The number of UACs detained has tripled in recent weeks, with more than 100,000 migrating encounters in February.
Critics blamed the dramatic liberalization of immigration policies and the return of Trump-era border protection to encouraging the flow and removal of instruments that helped with migrant protocols or returning them to their homelands.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas listens as President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order on immigration at the White House’s Oval Office on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci)
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, on Monday visited the southern border with 12 other Republican lawmakers and called the situation “worse than a crisis.”
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“I thought I was going to see a crisis, but it’s really a human sadness,” he told Jenkins. “We have our brand new facility to care for these children, and they built it out of capacity and thought they would never achieve it. Today, they just set the anniversary of their capacity – more than 1,040 children, and it’s just growing every day. ‘
The Biden government has claimed that it is replacing the “cruelty” of the previous government under Donald Trump with a more “humane” system and has warned that it will take time. But it refused to acknowledge that there was a ‘crisis’, preferring to describe it as a ‘challenge’.
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The administration is reportedly considering transporting migrants on the border between the United States and Mexico to processing facilities in Canada in an effort to reduce tensions on southern migration facilities, reports The Washington Post.
Fox News’ Adam Shaw and Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.