Remember, demoncraps called Trump the latest reincarnation of Hitler for his having ‘tent cities’ constructed to house illegal aliens, so cue the meme
Biden administration opens another tent city to detain surge of illegal migrants
The Biden administration is facing fresh spikes of over 100 percent in illegal border crossings from this time last year and has opened another tent city to detain illegal immigrants in Texas, US Customs and Border Protection has announced.
The Border Patrol revealed in a report released Wednesday that the number of migrants apprehended at the border in the month of January reached nearly 78,000, up from 36,679 in January 2020.
Single adult Mexican citizens accounted for more than 37,000 CBP encounters, a 119 percent increase from this time last year, according to the agency.
Amid the surge, a new “soft-sided facility” was established this week by the agency in Donna, Texas, to hold individuals originally staying at the Centralized Processing Center in McAllen, Texas.
The Donna facility is “weatherproof, climate-controlled, and provide[s] ample areas for eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene,” CBP said in a statement Tuesday.
The agency went on to call the Donna location “a considerable upgrade from previous soft-sided facilities,” touting its 160,000 square feet of covered area.
The Trump administration faced considerable criticism by then-candidate Joe Biden and Democrats over its use of temporary shelters, also known as “tent cities,” in towns across the southern border.
Being temporary, these housing facilities are typically not held to the same regulatory standards as long-term shelters.
“The Donna location was chosen because it is central to Border Patrol stations throughout the Rio Grande Valley Sector,” a CBP spokesperson said this week of the newest facility.
This tent city erected under President Biden is not the first of his young administration.
Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services said it would open an overflow facility able to accommodate up to 700 migrant children within the next two weeks.
In a statement released by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the department announced plans to reopen a “temporary Influx Care Facility” in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
“Initially, the Carrizo Springs ICF will accommodate approximately 700 children in hard-sided structures. Additional semi-permanent (soft-sided) capacity may be added if necessary, though ORR will always prioritize placing children in hard-sided structures over semi-permanent structures,” the statement read.
The Carrizo Springs facility will be used for children above the age of 13 who have completed quarantine for COVID-19.
There are currently over 4,700 children in the care of that division, which also currently funds over 13,000 licensed beds for migrants.