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Texas Governor Blames Biden's Open Border Immigration Policy for Migrant Surge
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1:47Now PlayingTexas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that a surge of migration to the U.S. from Mexico resulted in federal officials "scrambling" to find housing for unaccompanied children.He relayed the story near Dallas' downtown convention center, which is getting ready to house up to 3,000 migrant teenagers.
More facilities for migrant children are quickly opening elsewhere, including in Midland, where Abbott claimed there were no assurances about the conditions of the facility.
U.S. authorities encountered children traveling alone 9,457 times in February, nearly double the number in January and the highest since May 2019, when the figure neared 12,000 during the peak of a surge during the era of former President Donald Trump.
The head of the Department of Homeland Security pushed back against Republican criticism of the Biden administration's border policies, refusing to say that the surge of migrant children entering the United States is a "crisis."
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