“We installed three new facilities last week. We’re working on the system from start to end. We’re working around the clock 24/7,” Mayores told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” Told when pressed. Timeline of administration to get new processing facilities up and running. “We have dealt with growth in the past and the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security will succeed.”
Bash pressed Mykorus to provide a timeline, asking: “Can you be more specific?” And “Can you give me a date that you hope you will rise above so that these children get better facilities?”
The secretary, declining again to provide a date, told Bash “as soon as possible,” that the coronavirus virus epidemic has partially complicated his efforts.
Mayorkas defended the administration’s work on the southern border and blamed the Trump administration for dismantling the immigration system, saying his department would now have to rebuild it “from scratch”.
President Joe Biden told reporters outside the White House on Sunday that he would visit the border “at some point” and said “I know what is happening in those facilities” when asked if he would like to explain the situation. Want to see first.
Biden said his administration was working to reestablish a program that allowed refugees to apply for asylum from their country.
“I have said many times that a border petrol station is no place for a child and that is why we are working around the clock to move those children out of the border petrol facilities, which the department is looking after. And there are detained health and human services that give them shelter, ”he said.
As of Saturday, there were more than 600 children, who have been in custody for more than 10 days, documents show. Federal law requires HHS rejecting irresponsible children within 72 hours to oversee a shelter network designed for home minors, but amid epidemic-related barriers, children 72 hours Remain in custody for more than the limit of.
On average, children stay in border patrol custody in prison-like facilities for more than five days.
CNN previously reported that children are making alternate schedules to make room for each other in alternative facilities, some children have not seen sunshine for days and others are taking a shower, often passing days without one, According to case managers, lawyers and Border Patrol agents. Bunk beds have been brought to one of the processing facilities to accommodate the influx of children, an agent said, adding that the children are sleeping on plastic planks on the floor and benches.
The administration was not expected to blow up the balloon to officials, officials told CNN, hoping that the number of migrants would likely rise before the US president arrived – he gave a different approach to immigration than former President Donald Trump . That he did not expect this big boom.
Mayorkas warns that the increase will likely reach a peak of two decades.
This story has been updated with additional details on Sunday.
CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez, Jason Hoffman, Nikki Carvajal, Arlette Sainz and Donald Judd contributed to this report.
