‘No Good Choices’: HHS Is Cutting Safety Corners To Move Migrant Kids Out Of Overcrowded Facilities

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1367551

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“There may be no good choices,” Mark Greenberg, a former head of the Administration for Children and Families (which oversees the unaccompanied-children program) at the HHS, told ProPublica. “Everything has to be weighed against the alternative. And the alternative is the backups at Customs and Border Protection. And recognizing how bad that is, it means that people have to make unpalatable decisions.”

That pretty much sums it up.

It’s strange, but I don’t recall Cancun Cruz touring these facilities, and crying for compassion, when T**** was breaking up families and caging children?

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And we saw this in the Obama years, and part of the Trump years before his separation policy made it worse by making every child in CBP’s custody an unaccompanied minor.
And just the practicality of a business or agency that needs space, resources, supplies and personnel for only 6 months (?) out 12.