Construction workers frantically build new tent cities to house migrant children

show ad Construction workers frantically build new tent cities to house migrant children: Biden tries to control surge by turning the 125,000-capacity San Diego convention center and local hotels into shelters Construction workers were seen building new tent cities to house migrant children in Texas as the Biden administration announces the San Diego Convention Center will act as a shelter for unaccompanied kids Workers were seen rapidly transforming a 40-acre site into what’s being reported as a permanent processing structure and shelter for unaccompanied migrant minors in Donna, Texas Pictures showed a workers also delivering pizzas to the living area of the tented facility in Texas on Monday Meanwhile, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and County Supervisor Chair Nathan Fletcher said in a joint statement that the convention center would become a temporary shelter for unaccompanied children Pictures Monday show inside the US Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna Congressman Henry Cuellar released the images; he confirmed they were taken over this weekend Rep Cuellar said they offer an insight into the ‘terrible conditions for the children’ at the border He said that as of Sunday 400 unaccompanied male minors were being kept in a tent meant to hold 260 White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had said there would be organized trips for press to gain access to detention facilities; later, she walked back on those comments and refused to share images from the facilities Refusing to call the situation at the US southern border a crisis, Psaki said Monday: ‘These photos show what we’ve long been saying, which is that these border patrol facilities are not places made for children’ A total of 823 unaccompanied children were held at US-Mexico border facilities for more than 10 days That’s more than a fourfold increase over the last week, according to a leaked security document Children are not supposed to be held in border patrol custody for more than three days: as of Saturday 2,226 children had been held in custody for more than five days and 823 for more than 10 days