Another day at Biden's Border: RECORD 800 Unaccompanied Migrant Children are Apprehended in 24 hours - almost DOUBLE the average - Flights Take Migrants to Louisiana and 650 TEST POSITIVE at a camp in Texas after Crossing the Border
The crisis at the southern border continues to surge past unprecedented levels Friday as concerns over the influx of unaccompanied minors and others are compounded by
COVID-19 fears - while
Joe Biden heads to his home state of
Delaware for the weekend.
The number of children under age 18 apprehended at the border was 834 on Thursday, according to Health and Human Services. The 30-day average is just 512.
More than 14,500 children are currently in HHS custody, and according to Fox there are 2,784 children in Border Patrol custody.
The rising figure is likely partially fueled by the Biden administration pulling back on the Trump-era Title 42 policy which under CDC direction enables Border Patrol to turn asylum-seekers away over COVID concerns.
More than 800 unaccompanied migrant children were met by Border Patrol in just 24 hours (pictured: Asylum seekers line up to be vaccinated in Baja California on August 3)
Beyond the southern border migrants are being flown to places like Louisiana, where the Alexandria airport saw up to four flights a day arriving with migrant detainees last week, according to a local
ABC affiliate.
Those migrants are held at the Alexandria Staging Facility, which is run by a private prison firm that acts as an ICE contractor.
Biden's border crisis: Record 800 unaccompanied migrant children are apprehended in 24 hours | Daily Mail Online