Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
04-08-2021, 11:33 PM
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-administration-spending-60-million-per-week-to-shelter-unaccompanied-minors/ar-BB1frIhG?ocid=msedgdhp
The Washington Post
Biden administration spending $60 million per week to shelter unaccompanied minors
Nick Miroff 52 mins ago
The Biden administration appears to be spending at least $60 million per week to care for the more than 16,000 migrant teenagers and children in shelters operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, and those costs are expected to rise significantly over the coming months, according to an analysis of government data obtained by The Washington Post.
a group of people watching a football ball: Young migrants wait to be tested for the novel coronavirus at the Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Tex., on March 30, 2021. That facility is main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley.© Dario Lopez-Mills/AP/Pool Young migrants wait to be tested for the novel coronavirus at the Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Tex., on March 30, 2021. That facility is main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley.
With a record number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border in the past several weeks, HHS quickly filled the 7,700 available beds in its network of permanent shelters, where the cost of caring for a child is about $290 daily and capacity has been reduced by covid protocols.
The administration has raced to set up at least 10 large emergency facilities, creating 16,000 temporary beds for migrant children in convention centers, converted oil worker camps and on military bases. About 8,500 children are living at these pop-up sites, and 4,000 more are waiting to be transferred from cramped border facilities.
The cost of these emergency sites is more than 2½ times higher than the more-permanent shelters “due to the need to develop facilities quickly and hire significant staff over a short period of time,” said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for HHS’s Administration for Children and Families. He said the average daily cost per child is “approximately $775 per day based on past experience.”
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Reporters have repeatedly asked the Biden administration for cost data associated with the emergency shelters, aside from the $775 figure. Officials have not provided a breakdown by location or indicated whether there are financial savings associated with the use of military bases, for instance, in comparison with other sites.
Teens and children are spending an average of 31 days in HHS custody before they are released to a vetted family member already in the United States or to an eligible sponsor, according to the most recent HHS data, so the government is spending about $24,000 for each minor held at the temporary facilities. That doesn’t include time spent in a Border Patrol facility.
The government projects that by September, about 22,000 to 26,000 unaccompanied minors will arrive each month and require HHS care, further stretching spending levels. Biden officials say they do not plan to ask Congress for supplemental funding to cover the costs of the emergency sites.
During a historic influx of migrant family groups in 2019, the Trump administration got Congress to approve a $4.6 billion supplemental funding bill, money that was used in part to expand shelter capacity and improve care for migrants in government custody.
Last month, HHS’s Administration for Children and Families received $47.5 billion in funding through the $1.9 trillion Cares Act approved by Congress. The HHS secretary has authority to reprogram discretionary spending for the unaccompanied-minors program, affording the agency a significant cushion for shelter costs that could run into the billions of dollars this year.
Dems buying future voters.
No amount of money is too much when it comes to buying future voters, millions a week-or be it billions a week spent.
While we get 1400 dollars if we are lucky. We that paid in thousands in taxes!
Yet who knows how many kids invited in by Biden get 60 million a week spent on them--some of the American citizens struggle to clothe, feed and house their own children!
Isn't dem socialism wonderful(?)-- well at least wonderful to non- citizens...
Biden the 100% globalist puppet- giving citizens peanuts and while inviting in millions more illegals to drain the national treasury.
Only dem voters count..
Soon it will be spending 200 million a week.
After all- American tax payers can afford it right ???-Tyr
The Washington Post
Biden administration spending $60 million per week to shelter unaccompanied minors
Nick Miroff 52 mins ago
The Biden administration appears to be spending at least $60 million per week to care for the more than 16,000 migrant teenagers and children in shelters operated by the Department of Health and Human Services, and those costs are expected to rise significantly over the coming months, according to an analysis of government data obtained by The Washington Post.
a group of people watching a football ball: Young migrants wait to be tested for the novel coronavirus at the Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Tex., on March 30, 2021. That facility is main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley.© Dario Lopez-Mills/AP/Pool Young migrants wait to be tested for the novel coronavirus at the Department of Homeland Security holding facility in Donna, Tex., on March 30, 2021. That facility is main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley.
With a record number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border in the past several weeks, HHS quickly filled the 7,700 available beds in its network of permanent shelters, where the cost of caring for a child is about $290 daily and capacity has been reduced by covid protocols.
The administration has raced to set up at least 10 large emergency facilities, creating 16,000 temporary beds for migrant children in convention centers, converted oil worker camps and on military bases. About 8,500 children are living at these pop-up sites, and 4,000 more are waiting to be transferred from cramped border facilities.
The cost of these emergency sites is more than 2½ times higher than the more-permanent shelters “due to the need to develop facilities quickly and hire significant staff over a short period of time,” said Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman for HHS’s Administration for Children and Families. He said the average daily cost per child is “approximately $775 per day based on past experience.”
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Inside the Biden administration’s approach to contain the surge of migrants at the border
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Reporters have repeatedly asked the Biden administration for cost data associated with the emergency shelters, aside from the $775 figure. Officials have not provided a breakdown by location or indicated whether there are financial savings associated with the use of military bases, for instance, in comparison with other sites.
Teens and children are spending an average of 31 days in HHS custody before they are released to a vetted family member already in the United States or to an eligible sponsor, according to the most recent HHS data, so the government is spending about $24,000 for each minor held at the temporary facilities. That doesn’t include time spent in a Border Patrol facility.
The government projects that by September, about 22,000 to 26,000 unaccompanied minors will arrive each month and require HHS care, further stretching spending levels. Biden officials say they do not plan to ask Congress for supplemental funding to cover the costs of the emergency sites.
During a historic influx of migrant family groups in 2019, the Trump administration got Congress to approve a $4.6 billion supplemental funding bill, money that was used in part to expand shelter capacity and improve care for migrants in government custody.
Last month, HHS’s Administration for Children and Families received $47.5 billion in funding through the $1.9 trillion Cares Act approved by Congress. The HHS secretary has authority to reprogram discretionary spending for the unaccompanied-minors program, affording the agency a significant cushion for shelter costs that could run into the billions of dollars this year.
Dems buying future voters.
No amount of money is too much when it comes to buying future voters, millions a week-or be it billions a week spent.
While we get 1400 dollars if we are lucky. We that paid in thousands in taxes!
Yet who knows how many kids invited in by Biden get 60 million a week spent on them--some of the American citizens struggle to clothe, feed and house their own children!
Isn't dem socialism wonderful(?)-- well at least wonderful to non- citizens...
Biden the 100% globalist puppet- giving citizens peanuts and while inviting in millions more illegals to drain the national treasury.
Only dem voters count..
Soon it will be spending 200 million a week.
After all- American tax payers can afford it right ???-Tyr