Washington, United States.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, stated that a overwhelming majority of the migrants who arrive every day on the southern border with Mexicoor “become return “ a their countries
“Dozens thousands of elderly people from 18 years and people single have been sent home. We send back to the greats most families they come (…). They are not there crossing the border“, He said Biden to local media, after being held accountable Mexico of “not accepting” to more of these people.
Biden has said he is negotiating with his Mexican counterpartAndrés Manuel López Obrador, in this sense and is convinced that “teverything comes back “, Although, he qualifies, the only people who are not going to let retorn by himself “without help” are the unaccompanied children.
As for these minors, it is estimated that more than 400,000 children without their parents they are the Frontera since 2003. The head of the White House has recognized border facilities in the state Texas turned on to them they are “total unacceptable “ and it has progressed that they will get out “fast” from there to a thousand of them.
“I’ve been working from the moment this started trying to find an extra way for them children pthey can live on it safe way, (…) so they can be safely housed while we get on with the rest of what’s happening, ”he said.
With regard to the terms of these facilities, the President Biden has promised, without setting deadlines, to give them access for the sake of the press, he stressed, from “transparency “.
The US president has also taken the opportunity to distance himself from the immigration policy of his predecessor in office Donald Trump, whom he accused of leaving starve to the children whowho came to the border.
MORE THAN 17,000 UNACCOMPANIED MINORS DETECTED
US authorities confirmed this Friday that there are more than that 17,000 unaccompanied minors who are in custody in the country.
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The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security have the number of unaccompanied children in the Frontera, to indicate that there was almost until Wednesday 12,000 migrant childrenare asylum seekers in government-run healthcare facilities.
In addition to 5,000 in custody of the Customs and Border Protection Office, waiting in facilities unsuitable for the transfer of children to other centers, according to The Washington Post.
Given the critical situation and the lack of space to monitor them, the US government has announced that it is opening a ninth temporary facility in San Antonio, San Antonio state. Texas, what pwill make it possible to house 2,400 children unaccompanied.