Camp Roberts is no longer being considered as a location to temporarily house unaccompanied migrant children.
A spokesperson from the U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal’s office (D-Santa Barbara) said the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) informed the office that it doesn’t plan to use Camp Roberts due to a decrease in the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border.
The spokesperson told New Times that there are significantly fewer unaccompanied minors being apprehended and placed in HHS custody, so there is less need for additional facilities to house them.
According to the HHS daily report, as of June 2, 439 unaccompanied children were in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol custody. The numbers have dropped from April, when 5,000 unaccompanied minors were in custody.
The #NotCampRoberts Coalition, which recently formed in opposition to using the facility as a temporary housing center, said it is relieved to hear the news that children won’t be housed at Camp Roberts.
“It has always been the Coalition’s intention to advocate in the best interests of the children. We recognize the challenges that the Biden administration faces as they move forward in their efforts to respond to this humanitarian crisis,” the coalition said in a statement. “The Coalition will continue to work toward comprehensive immigration reform that will include providing safe temporary housing for asylum seekers and advocating for children to be united with family or sponsors as soon as possible.” ∆
This article appears in Summer Guide 2021.
Thank God for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They are reducing problems rather than adding to them. Nice change over the preceding administration. It’s very good for the country to have competent reasonable and compassionate people leading our nation.
Unfortunately Joe Biden and Kamala Harriss poor leadership resulted in a loss of control on our southern border, and now we have approximately 22,000 unaccompanied minors who came here without their parents. After the last presidential election, the whacky liberals sent a message that illegal immigrants would be welcomed in our country, and now we have chaos on the border, unaccompanied minors and drug and human traffickers operating with impunity.
The Biden solution? Keep the children in cages, distribute them across the country, and then allow for a loose family reunification process, allowing parents and siblings to immigrate here and go immediately on welfare. Biden and the whacky liberals view these low information voters as one of the keys to electoral success, and the chaos we see on the border, the human and drug traffickers, and exploited minor youth do not mean anything other than photo ops for the Democrat Party.
Stop Kamala Harris & Children in Cages
Support ICE, illegal is a crime, not a race
No sanctuary City Policies
End DACA ASAP
No Further Biden Border Crisis
No Amnesty for Illegals
Reunite Children in HOME country.
Stop Biden/Harris Open Borders
Abandon whacky Democrats in 2022/24