Washington, United States.
The Pentagon yesterday approved a request from the Department of Health to temporarily house the Pentagon unaccompanied migrant children a of Texas military bases, in the context of the difficulties facing the Government of Joe Biden to process the minors.
At the St. Anthony-Lackland Joint Base, the children will stay andn a bedroom available, yen Fort Bliss, will be built temporary housings in an empty field, said in a statement the spokesman for the Department of Defense, John Kirby.
The Department of Health will have access to thes locations “immediately“To prepare for receive children, He added.
In addition, it will maintain custody and responsibility for the welfare and support of these minors at all times in theFacilities, point out Kirby.
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Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Department of Health’s request had been to host hast.to 5,000 children in Fort Bliss And others 300 on the other base, although it was not immediately clear whether the petition had been approved in its entirety.