Fema brought in to help with child migrant surge
A US agency that normally handles major emergencies and organic disasters has been brought in to help look after the rising amounts of migrant children coming to the US southern border.
The Federal Emergency Control Company (Fema) would "help receive, shelter and transport the children" for another 90 days, it was announced. President Joe Biden has got been reversing some of his predecessor's guidelines. But the new surge of arrivals is definitely putting pressure on digesting systems. There were a record number of children - 3,200 - being placed in US immigration facilities on the US-Mexican border by 8 March.
Hundreds continue to arrive each working day, and many are being held beyond the legal three-day limit and they are said to be turned to health officials who look for homes for them even while their immigration circumstance is resolved.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said the other day that the situation on the border was "overwhelming" however, not yet a crisis.
Announcing Fema's involvement, Mr Mayorkas said the agency would work with medical and Human Services Section (HHS) to "look by every available substitute for quickly expand physical capacity for appropriate lodging".
"Our goal is usually to ensure that unaccompanied children happen to be transferred to HHS as quickly as possible, steady with legal requirements and on the best interest of the kids," he added. On the marketing campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to reverse a lot of Donald Trump's restrictive migrant plans.
Since taking office in January, he has ordered the reunification of migrant children with their own families, ended structure of the border wall and called for critiques of legal immigration programmes terminated by his predecessor.
