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The Biden government was awarded a $ 87 million contract for hotel accommodation for migrants.
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Some of these hotels have withdrawn as debates over the border rise continue, Axios reported.
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The US is experiencing the largest surge on its southern border in 20 years.
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Four hotels have withdrawn their plans to accommodate migrants under a Biden management contract. Axios reported Friday.
Immigration and customs control confirmed this in a statement to Insider last month secured a $ 86.9 million contract with a non-profit mission “to provide temporary housing and processing services to families who have not been deported and are therefore involved in immigration proceedings because of their deportation from the United States.”
The statement said that Endeavor, which includes programs that include housing services and disaster relief, would secure 1,239 beds in addition to other services. Families would also get COVID-19 tests.
“Our border is not open,” said ICE director Tae D. Johnson. “The majority of people will continue to be expelled under the Centers for Disease Control’s health authority.”
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Axios reported that the hotels that withdrew from the plans were in Texas and Arizona and were designed to accommodate around 600 migrants. They were a Woodspring Suites, a Hampton Inn by Hilton, a Microtel by Wyndham, and a Best Western.
The effort informed Axios that alternative hotels have already been secured.
Hotels have already been used by immigration officials, including Last year when hundreds of migrants, including children, were held in large hotel chains before being deported under the border ban for the pandemic by President Donald Trump.
In recent months, President Joe Biden’s administration has struggled to deal with a flood of migrants, mostly families and children, on the southern border.
The US is well on its way to seeing up to 2 million migrants there this year, amid its biggest surge in two decades. The Washington Post reported. The increase puts a heavy strain on state resources and the border towns.
Republicans have blamed Biden’s actions and rhetoric for the upswing, the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called a “Biden Frontier Crisis”. Meanwhile, Biden has tried publicly to urge people from Central America to do so do not travel to the US and stay where they are.
The White House did refused to call the situation a “crisis” despite criticism from Republicans.
US officials said Reuters last week that Biden’s helpers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the situation and believe that migrant children will not be released from custody by the Department of Health and Human Services soon enough.
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