For four years we heard how cruel and heartless the Trump administration was to illegal alien children. But the current policies of the Biden administration make Trump look like a cross between Mother Teresa and Disney World.

FNC: “The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. Confidential data obtained by the AP shows the number of migrant children in government custody more than doubled in the past two months, and this week the federal government was housing around 21,000 kids, from toddlers to teens. A facility at Fort Bliss, a U.S. Army post in El Paso, Texas, had more than 4,500 children as of Monday. Attorneys, advocates and mental health experts say that while some shelters are safe and provide adequate care, others are endangering children’s health and safety.

“Of particular concern to advocates are mass shelters, with hundreds of beds apiece. These facilities can leave children isolated, less supervised and without basic services. The AP found about half of all migrant children detained in the U.S. are sleeping in shelters with more than 1,000 other children. More than 17,650 are in facilities with 100 or more children. Some shelters and foster programs are small, little more than a house with a handful of kids. A large Houston facility abruptly closed last month after it was revealed that children were being given plastic bags instead of access to restrooms.” Yes, that is the Biden administration’s idea of taking proper care of children. Anyplace else it would be child abuse.

Confidential data obtained by the @AP shows the number of migrant children in government custody has nearly tripled in the past two months to around 21,000 kids, from toddlers to teens, in a network of more than 200 facilities. https://t.co/2HOfogoGuz

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 11, 2021

“As much as having children spend days on end at CBP is unacceptable, so, too, is having children spend weeks on end in unlicensed Emergency Intake Sites,” said National Center for Youth Law attorney Neha Desai. “With every passing day, it is increasingly critical that these children are released to sponsors or transferred to licensed facilities.”

“The system has been very dysfunctional, and it’s getting worse,” said Amy Cohen, a child psychiatrist and executive director of the nonprofit Every. Last. One. “The children are coming out sick, with COVID, infested with lice, and it will not surprise me to see children dying as a consequence. The Biden administration is feverishly putting up these pop-up detention facilities, many of which have no experience working with children.” Lice and dying kids. Welcome to the kinder gentler Biden administration.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on May 11, 2021. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.

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