Biden approval numbers tumble over border crisis: poll

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Biden approval numbers tumble over border crisis: poll
On the controversial issue of immigration and border security, President Biden’s approval rating is dropping, a new poll shows.

Only a third of Americans say they approve of Biden’s handling of the immigration issue, with 53% of them saying they disapprove of his performance, an NPR / Marist poll said Tuesday.

While two-thirds of Democrats say they approve of Biden’s handling of the issue in the first two months of his presidency, his approval rating plunges to 27% support among Independents and just 5% among Republicans.

The influx of migrants across the national border with Mexico has surged since Biden’s inauguration on January 20. Republicans have repeatedly criticized the president on the issue, blaming him for what they consistently call a “crisis.”

This week, the Biden administration began asking federal workers to help “urgent efforts” deal with the surge in unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the southern border. Thousands of children are temporarily housed in border facilities designed for adults.

Biden also faces incoming fire from the progressive left of the Democratic Party, which is increasingly frustrated by the president’s slow progress so far in delivering on what he pledged in the 2020 election campaign. – an immigration system that is more humane than the restrictive policies of former President Donald. The Trump administration. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR TOP STORY.

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– A migrant caravan of hundreds of Hondurans leaves for the United States
– Biden’s border response called ‘half-concert’ by Texas congressman
– Fort Bliss overflow site receiving 500 unaccompanied minors amid border surge
– Immigration officials should remove references to immigrants as “ foreigners ” from the agency’s policy manual
– VP Harris thanks Guatemalan President Giammattei after his crackdown on migrants, does not visit the border
– Biden WH says Trump ‘avoided’ science, amid criticism of border health protocols

San Diego teachers educate migrant children with higher COVID rates than stranded U.S. students by learning virtually
EXCLUSIVE: Unaccompanied migrant children housed at the San Diego Convention Center have an extremely high rate of COVID-19 infections – but local teachers will provide them with in-person instructions before their own students.

Hundreds of migrant girls have been housed at the facility as the Biden administration tries to figure out how to handle a crisis of unaccompanied children flocking to the southern border.

Of the more than 700 unaccompanied girls transferred to the center, at least 82 tested positive for the virus on Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told Fox News on Tuesday evening.

All the girls had been tested before being transported to the temporary facility on Monday, with 59 testing positive for the coronavirus. They were housed separately and anyone injured or ill was treated on-site by staff at Rady Children’s Hospital, although children with serious illnesses were not taken into the facility to start and go straight to the hospital. hospital.

Twenty-three other girls tested positive at the facility and were transferred to a different floor from the negative population. Anyone exposed but not tested positive has also been quarantined in another area. Children who had not tested positive would continue to be tested every three days, according to HHS. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE.

In other developments:
– Psaki grilled on teachers giving in-person instructions to migrant children before their own students
– Republicans enraged at San Diego teachers instructing migrant children in person before Americans
– San Diego public school teachers to give migrant children in-person instruction before their own students
– San Diego school teachers offered ‘white privilege training’ where participants pledge to be ‘anti-racist’

Blackburn asks ICE, DHS over $ 86.9 million spending on migrant hotels
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn demands responses from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs on Tuesday more than $ 86.9 million agencies are spending to house more than 1,200 migrant families in guest rooms. hotel.

The Biden administration earlier this month authorized ICE to spend $ 86.9 million through Endeavors, a Texas-based nonprofit, on hotel rooms near the border to provide temporary shelter and processing services to families who have been deported from the United States but have been placed in immigration proceedings for their removal.

But Blackburn, R-Tenn., In a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson, questions the nonprofit organization’s past financial information and how the funds will be used.

Blackburn said that in 2018, Endeavors made “over $ 38 million in contributions and grants,” and noted that “IRS filings show nearly $ 22 million, or nearly half of these contributions went to salaries ”.

“This raises questions whether half of the $ 86.9 million in proceeds from the ICE contract will also be allocated to compensation for employees and executives instead of migrant services or housing,” Blackburn wrote.

“As the contract stands, the cost to taxpayers of housing 1,200 migrant families for six months is approximately $ 71,000 per person,” Blackburn wrote. “For a family of four, that comes down to $ 284,000 – enough to buy a small house.” CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE.

In other developments:
– Tucker Carlson: Migrant surge ‘will change the country forever’
– Biden administration awards $ 86 million contract to ICE to secure hotel rooms for illegal families

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A FEW WORDS OF PIECE

US Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) and its leader, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, on Tuesday night’s “Hannity”.

Adhanom is a “succulent and obsequious for the Chinese Communist Party – which supported his election,” Kennedy said. “As I said before, if you took President Xi of China, knocked him down and shook him, Dr. Tedros would fall.

“Now Dr Tedros has released a report on behalf of the UN and in collaboration with China. He is following Chinese propaganda closely. He practically rejects the hypothesis of a laboratory leak.”

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