The backups have been exacerbated by the more than 4,500 unaccompanied teenagers and children held in detention cells and border tent sites, a record number. ADADThe email indicates CBP has not yet determined which northern and coastal states could receive the flights. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas traveled to El Paso on Friday with Republican and Democratic senators to visit facilities housing unaccompanied minors, the department said Friday. CBP has used ICE aircraft in recent days to transport migrant families from the Rio Grande Valley, where facilities are far overcapacity, to the El Paso area. Many of those families are then being returned to Mexico under a Trump-era emergency public health order.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 19:01 UTC