HHS spending $60 million per week to house unaccompanied minors at border
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(Worthy News) – The Biden administration is spending $60 million per week to take care of unaccompanied minors at the border, according to a report by The Washington Post.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) quickly filled its 7,700 available beds in its network of permanent shelters, where the cost of caring for a single migrant child runs $290 daily.
The administration is reckoning with a record number of children arriving at the border in what has become a new crisis for the Biden White House. It is a problem that was also faced by the Obama and Trump administrations, both of which found it difficult to deal with or solve. [ Source: The Hill (Read More…) ]
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