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There is a humanitarian crisis at the border and nothing more. There are no attacks coming across the border and if there are guns, then it is the drug cartels and there ain't anything new about that.
Ted Cruz is worried about his Senate seat and is trying to create a wedge issue for his particular politics. That will never be a wedge issue. The humanitarian crisis is real and it is ongoing because the climate crisis storms have devastated the Northern Triad and areas of Mexico. Where are all the Republican Senators touring the devastation of these people's homelands?
"Look," if there is no land capable of supporting housing because the mudslides have removed small towns from existence. If the coffee plants that were harvested and sold in small Non-GMO markets for a family's income are gone along with the topsoil, there isn't going to be any alternative but to move from that land.
That is what the people of the Northern Triad are facing. We saw in a previous post a graph illustrating that is the truth. The movement north escalated for very real reasons while Trump thought terrorizing and mistreating the migrants would work to stop the surge to the southern USA border. Well, it didn't. That is a fact and quite frankly they have nothing to go back to when they are returned to their countries because their status is illegal.
The issue with the children has been discussed here and evidently, Cruz and his minions are trying to make lies into the truth and won't stop and FOX News accommodates all that.
The federal Donna Facility that Cruz believes tells the entire story is in the reporting below at the website for ABC which includes video. Nothing is being hidden regardless of the lies and propaganda.
The reason the press is being told they cannot have free access is that in previous administrations the migrants and children were used for political purposes. President Biden doesn't want that to happen. Some of the migrants will have grounds for asylum and many may be women running away from abuse and enslavement. Everyone in the media should know that women in shelters are not photographed so their abusers can find them. Has anyone honestly seen women in shelters appearing in ads for fundraising? I never have. The same holds true here.
THE MIGRANTS ARE NOT ON DISPLAY FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS, including their own safety and security.
Asylum seekers with valid reasons need to be protected.
End of discussion.
March 23, 2021
Faced with mounting pressure (click here) over the public's limited access to federal facilities housing a record number of migrant children, the Biden administration has now released its first official images from inside two Texas detention centers, with ABC News receiving an exclusive first look at videos and photos produced in recent days by the U.S. government.
The videos -- shot last week and released Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection -- show living conditions inside a processing facility in El Paso, Texas, and a holding facility in Donna, Texas, where unaccompanied children and other migrants, including families, are being held while they await transfer to other federal agencies better suited to address their needs.
In the government-sanctioned photos and videos, children arriving at the Donna facility wear masks as they have their temperatures checked and receive health scans. One photo shows a child in a playpen, being watched over by a contracted caretaker.
The nearly four-minute video from Donna then depicts a crowded but orderly facility, with children packed into enclosures and sleeping on mats on floors. The video also shows shelves from inside the facility stocked with items including linens, diapers, food, water and hand sanitizer....
