Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday talks about media constraints ahead of a planned trip to the Mexican border with fellow Republican senators.
"Over one hundred thousand illegal immigrants who were detained last month, to see the over 15,000 children that are in the custody of the Biden administration right now, to see the conditions where the Biden administration is releasing illegal immigrants into the public, who are testing positive for COVID at a rate seven times higher than the US population," Cruz said.
"It is a crisis, it is a crisis that was created by the Biden administration," he added. "Joe Biden is issuing this media blackout because he's terrified of the American people seeing the disaster that is unfolding."
President Biden pledged to reverse many of the hard-line border policies of his Republican predecessor, former President Donald Trump. But less than two months into his presidency, he is dealing with an emerging humanitarian and political crisis.
The number of migrants arriving at the US-Mexico border this year is on pace to be the highest in 20 years, one of Biden's top officials said last week, a rise that includes an increase in unaccompanied children.
The Biden administration has struggled to house the growing number of children arriving without a parent or legal guardian, which has left them stuck in jail-like border facilities for days.
The HHS refugee office currently has more than 11,000 unaccompanied children in its custody. As of March 19, more than 5,000 children were in crowded border stations, according to internal U.S. government data reviewed by Reuters.
Separately, the HHS refugee office said that the Biden administration will add emergency housing for an additional 500 unaccompanied minors in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
The new emergency facility is part of an effort to house accompanied minors that has included beds in the Dallas convention center and other sites in Texas.
Republicans have blamed Biden for relaxing immigration policies, while some Democrats are concerned about conditions in facilities and why children are being held for so long.
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