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Two men are taken into custody by the U.S. Border Patrol near Falfurrias, Texas March 29, 2013. Brooks County has become an epicentre for illegal immigrant deaths in Texas. In 2012, sheriff's deputies found 129 bodies there, six times the number recorded car rental canada enterprize in 2010. Most of those who died succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain that comprise the ranch lands of south Texas. Many migrants spend a few days in a "stash house", such as the Casa del Migrante, in Reynosa, Mexico, and many are ignorant of the treacherous journey ahead. Picture taken March 29, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS)
Desperate to figure out what to do with thousands of illegal immigrants that have been apprehended at the U.S. border, the federal government has created an email address to gather leads on facilities that could be used to house them.
The plea, contained in an email sent by Tara Corrigan of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and obtained by Los Angeles s KFI News , also provides insight into how the Obama administration is helping coordinate the massive surge of illegal immigrants, which it calls an unprecedented car rental canada enterprize event.
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Between Oct. 1 and June 15, 52,000 unaccompanied children most of whom are from Central America have been apprehended. FEMA is heading the overall effort while HHS, through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, is in charge of finding temporary housing for them.
As you are aware, there has been an increase in the number car rental canada enterprize of very young children making this journey, reads FEMA s email, forwarded by Corrigan. This is an unprecedented event that requires unique approaches to temporarily house children until they can be discharged car rental canada enterprize to a sponsor while awaiting judicial proceedings.
car rental canada enterprize Instead of returning the children to their home countries, U.S. immigration policy requires that they be turned over to HHS. The agency then houses them until they can be placed with a sponsor or relative.
The FEMA email also lists such amenities as showers, toilets, kitchen and cafeteria space, recreational space and educational facilities car rental canada enterprize as preferable but not required. Climate-controlled facilities are also preferred, but not required.
Besides car rental canada enterprize those locations, the agency has struggled to find other large housing facilities, either because of local opposition car rental canada enterprize or because the facilities were deemed car rental canada enterprize unsuitable for use. Last month, residents of Lawrenceville, Virginia forced HHS officials to back off of a plan to send hundreds of unaccompanied children to St. Paul s College. Residents of two California towns, Escondido and Murietta, have recently voiced their opposition to similar plans.