Immigrant Advocate: Unaccompanied Minors Are Not a "Border Crisis" But a Humanitarian Crisis

Thousands of migrant children seeking refuge are being held in crowded cells amid an increase in asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite claims by Republican lawmakers during a tour of the southern border aimed at warning against rollbacks of Trump's immigration policy, most adults at the border are still being turned away, while the Biden administration is allowing unaccompanied children to cross while their cases are processed. Thousands of the unaccompanied minors are being sent to cities across Texas to be housed and processed, including Dallas, where FEMA will hold as many as 3,000 unaccompanied teens. Fernando Garcia, founding director of the Border Network for Human Rights, says that despite Republican claims about a crisis" at the border, the situation is not new or unexpected. The Biden administration was not ready to deal with a situation like this," says Garcia, after Trump destroyed the infrastructure in the refugee asylum systems in the last four years."