immigrant children are being held in temporary U.S. holding pens. The U.S. border patrol says its forces are overwhelmed, and the courts are bracing for a flood of immigration cases from children held in temporary detention facilities designed to handle a fraction of the numbers. Sanitation problems are beginning to rear their ugly heads.
Republicans are pointing the finger of blame squarely at the White House, claiming that the President enticed tens of thousands of Central American children to cross America’s southern border. Obama rolled out a controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012, giving illegal immigrants another two-year window to appeal deportation.