As Twitchy reported earlier, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain had only one word for a CBS News immigration reporter’s tweet on overcrowding at the border: Facts.
Conditions in the largest Border Patrol facility for migrant children have changed dramatically.
In March, the Donna facility was severely overcrowded, holding 3,700 lone children.
When we were allowed inside yesterday, Donna was holding 330 lone minors.https://t.co/s9qM5laBBX
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) May 7, 2021
Pods inside Donna designed to hold a handful of migrants were holding dozens of unaccompanied minors in March, leaving very little space between the mats children use to sleep.
Yesterday each pod was holding no more than eight children. The playpen for young children was empty.
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) May 7, 2021
So there are fewer kids in cages at one border facility?
The reason the number of migrant children in CBP custody has plummeted is that HHS has opened thousands of emergency beds in convention centers, military sites, work camps and another tent in Donna. CBP warned that acute overcrowding could return if HHS does not have enough beds.
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) May 7, 2021
So they put up another tent at the same facility?
White House Deputy Communications Director Pili Tobar was another Biden-Harris administration official retweeting the story:
We had a plan from the beginning: move kids as fast as possible out of CBP to ORR and to the arms of vetted sponsors or family members. That plan is working. https://t.co/xgs7ZlgrbU
— pilitobar46 (@pilitobar46) May 7, 2021
So there was a plan?
From a WH official. The Biden plan from the beginning was not to prevent illegal border crossings but to accommodate them. Message to the world: Come to the US. Cross the border illegally; we will not enforce the law.https://t.co/czs49n21Ya
— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 8, 2021
We've literally known that for years before Biden became POTUS. Are you shocked Byron because I am not?
— Dana (@sparkey909w) May 8, 2021
Surge to the border.
— Doctor Deshawn Jackson (@Deshawn68882369) May 8, 2021
Both sides know exactly what they are doing.
— noteNbrush (@NNbrush) May 8, 2021
They likely turned some large number over to traffickers.
— Mark Noonan (@Mark_E_Noonan) May 8, 2021
Lawlessness at the highest level.
— viking (@helen_aavik) May 8, 2021
Does this surprise anyone?
— Hooyah Daddy (@HeideWeltonRN) May 8, 2021
We call it a crisis. Democrats call it a strategy.
— Adam Wolf 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 (@USCriticalMess) May 8, 2021
Or…you could enforce our borders. Novel idea I know.
— TextheCat (@rabbsugar) May 8, 2021
Hard to get those future democratic voters if they do that.
— Keith ⛄⛄⛄Burton (@bbeekk321) May 8, 2021
In other words, an orderly facilitation of illegal immigration
— Jermaine Burkhalter (@JerBurk) May 8, 2021
And where are they now? Stuck in an old Holiday Inn in Phoenix for one thing. "Into the arms…." BS.
— Cocoa is a dog (@Cocoaisadog) May 8, 2021
“Vetted”
— Charity (@charitabee) May 8, 2021
Congrats on supporting literal human trafficking.
— T-Bones (@TrishthedisH789) May 8, 2021
Or hear me out: we just deport them immediately
— Aetius (@AetiusRF) May 8, 2021
Does the Biden-Harris plan include enforcing US immigration laws? Even just a little bit?
— TheReformRepublican (@TheReformRepub1) May 8, 2021
This is a sabotage against America.
— Senpai 3:16 🇺🇸 🚁 (@Senpai_316) May 8, 2021
So anyone in the world can just send their kids here and they get in for life?
— Ombudsman4Truth (@ombudsman4truth) May 8, 2021
Yes. And their relatives will soon be able to follow. Even aged relatives.
— Truth Prevails 🇺🇸 Democrats Divide Us 2 Rule U! (@IgnoranceCosts1) May 8, 2021
Letting illegal immigrants flood through the border was always the plan. You said the quiet part out loud.
— AshleeLee (@MsAshleeLee) May 8, 2021
So, the plan was to not enforce the law.
— Theodore Roosevelt (@TheodoreRoosev8) May 8, 2021
— Alicat (@Ali22978741) May 8, 2021
No, there's still 22,000 migrant children in HHS custody and most aren't with sponsors or family members. Most are in hotels, convention centers and tents which HHS is using for facilities
— Convfefe (@CovfefeForT) May 8, 2021
Thanks for saying the quite part loudly. What a joke.
— CyberSecAI (@NetSecAI) May 8, 2021
Lady, there are children currently in our convention center that were moved from a detention center. Stop tweeting and actually DO SOMETHING.
— SoCal Dez (@iServicezRE) May 8, 2021
You aren’t doing anything. The churches and non profits are there helping them.
— SoCal Dez (@iServicezRE) May 8, 2021
In other words, we planned to have that surge at the border, then to accommodate all who arrived here. Doesn't matter to us at all if they are in the country illegally.
— Lovin'Life (@LakeLifeIsGreat) May 8, 2021
Your plan was to overrun the border and release everyone into our communities during a pandemic coinciding with a horrible economic condition for Americans. You are an enemy of this country and should be prosecuted.
— TWEETO BANDITO (@DjptrsnMana) May 8, 2021
So Biden intended to encourage illegal border crossing to overwhelm U.S. communities?
— FieldRoamer (@FieldRoamer) May 8, 2021
So the plan is to let anyone in. Pathetic.
— LTNC (@JonsBrian) May 8, 2021
That's not a plan. That's an invitation to the world to come violate our laws. I shouldn't be surprised I guess.
— Neanderthal Thinker (@searril) May 8, 2021
You are literally encouraging illegal immigration
— RIP Stinky T. Cat (@stinkytcat1) May 8, 2021
Your sugar-coating of an absolute, inhumane disaster is disgusting.
— Harrison Bergeron (@david_amrine) May 8, 2021
Funny that “a small group of journalists were allowed to tour the Donna tents” Thursday when the press has been kept away so far. And at a facility that has fewer kids in cages — what a coincidence.
Related:
Ben Shapiro drops Ron Klain on his head over the border crisis https://t.co/WqafY3l7CG
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 8, 2021