- Thousands of unaccompanied migrant minors are arriving at the US-Mexico border, and President Joe Biden has called in the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help manage the increasingly untenable situation as his administration attempts to unravel former President Trump’s migrant processing system. [Washington Post / Nick Miroff]
- Customs and Border Protection has held 3,000 kids longer than the legal limit of 72 hours in temporary holding facilities that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has admitted are “no place for a child” as the administration struggles to house the influx of kids arriving at the border. [CBS News / Camilo Montoya-Galvez]
- New reports show some children have been held as long as eight days without access to phones or showers. Biden is calling on FEMA to help house and transport kids away from Border Patrol custody. [BuzzFeed News / Adolfo Flores]
- About 435 unaccompanied children are arriving at the border each day. Biden has pledged to treat them more humanely than Trump, who had all migrants wait in Mexico and made no exceptions for children, housing them in squalid detention centers and separating families. But Biden has opened additional facilities, which were not intended for kids, due to the huge influx of migrants. [USA Today / Matthew Brown]
- Unlike Trump, the Biden administration is accepting unaccompanied minors. But Biden inherited an immigration system that struggles to manage the flow of migrants from Central America annually and a complex web of legal proceedings from the Trump administration that Biden’s personnel are still attempting to untangle. [Vox / Nicole Narea]
- The Biden administration has told migrants not to come, but the numbers of expected arrivals are projected to be high due to the pandemic and natural disasters in Central America. Shelters in Mexico and the US are reaching capacity. [NYT / Maria Abi-Habib]
- A group of progressive House Democrats, led by Rep. Ilhan Omar, is asking the Biden administration to end its contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the reports of inhumane conditions in detention facilities. [Newsweek / Danya Hajjaji]
- Meanwhile, a group of House Republicans led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy toured the border today and blamed the Biden administration for the crisis. [NPR / Barbara Sprunt]
- House Democrats will take up two immigration bills this week as part of a piecemeal approach to enacting President Biden’s agenda — a path to citizenship for DREAMers and for farmworkers. [WSJ / Michelle Hackman]
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