{"id":53869,"date":"2021-02-24T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53869"},"modified":"2021-02-24T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:38:13","slug":"pedogate-really-why-are-these-children-being-held-illegally-by-biden-anything-to-do-with-his-well-known-preferences-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=53869","title":{"rendered":"PEDOGATE! Really, why are these children being held illegally by Biden? Anything to do with his well-known preferences for&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Media Silent as Biden Illegally Holds Unaccompanied Migrant Children, Says Border Patrol Union<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by BOB PRICE<br \/>\nBreitbart<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The mainstream media is being silent as the Biden administration holds unaccompanied migrant children in Border Patrol custody longer than legally allowed, the head of the Border Patrol union stated. The minors are being held in the same \u201ccages\u201d the media and Democrat politicians loudly criticized the Trump administration for.<\/p>\n<p>National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Breitbart Texas that as of Monday, Border Patrol officials held more than 800 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) in custody. Despite the legal requirement to release the children to other federal agencies within 72 hours, more than 212 remained in custody longer than the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, [White House Press Secretary] Jen Psaski said the Administration could not hold the children in other locations due to the Covid protocols including social distancing,\u201d Judd told Breitbart, \u201cbut what she didn\u2019t tell the media was that the children in [Border Patrol\u2019s] custody were being held in conditions that have nearly no way to social distance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki\u2019s remarks came in a Tuesday press briefing in response to questions from Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy. Forbes tweeted a video of the exchange.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BobPriceBBTX&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1364268287656407040&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fborder%2F2021%2F02%2F23%2Fmedia-silent-as-biden-illegally-holds-unaccompanied-migrant-children-says-border-patrol-union%2F&amp;siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1364268287656407040\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Judd states that the Biden administration is holding unaccompanied minors in Border Patrol custody longer than the law allows in conditions where social distancing cannot be maintained in order to keep social distancing in other federal facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hypocrisy\u00a0from the left and the mainstream media truly shows they care nothing for the children they used as pawns to attack President Trump.\u201d\u00a0 Judd said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday Jen Psaski said \u2018Customs and Border Control\u2019 [not Customs and Border Protection] continue to transfer unaccompanied children to HHS\u2019 Office of Refugee and Resettlement (ORR),\u201d the Border Patrol union leader explained. \u201cShe went to great lengths to explain that due to the pandemic and social distancing, ORR only has capacity for a certain number of children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat she didn\u2019t explain is that the children that ORR doesn\u2019t have that capacity to take are left in facilities\u00a0far worse than those of HHS,\u201d Judd continued. \u201cIn fact, they are being held in the same locations they accused the Trump Administration of inhuman acts when they said he was holding \u2018kids in cages.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BobPriceBBTX&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1362207461869051906&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fborder%2F2021%2F02%2F23%2Fmedia-silent-as-biden-illegally-holds-unaccompanied-migrant-children-says-border-patrol-union%2F&amp;siteScreenName=BreitbartNews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1362207461869051906\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) attacked the Biden administration for their expanded policy of opening detention facilities in South Texas, Breitbart\u2019s John Binder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/23\/aoc-on-joe-biden-opening-migrant-holding-facility-this-is-not-okay\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not okay, never has been okay, never will be okay \u2014 no matter the administration or party,\u201d the New York congresswoman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Despite shortages of detention space, the Biden administration, through the U.S&gt; Border Patrol, issued instructions to immediately release migrants in South Texas in order to deal with overcrowding in temporary holding facilities, Breitbart\u2019s Randy Clark\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/02\/23\/exclusive-feds-increase-migrant-releases-amid-detention-space-shortages\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The continuing increase in the apprehension of unaccompanied minors is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/\">creating a crisis<\/a>\u00a0for the Biden administration along the Southwest border.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Unaccompanied Alien Children illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. is increasing from month to month, according to reports from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. In January 2021, Border Patrol agents apprehended 5,871 unaccompanied minors. This is up from 4,995 in December 2020 and 3,076 in January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart Texas reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol for confirmation of the numbers of migrants being held in custody by Border Patrol and how long they are being held. An immediate response from officials was not available by the time of this article\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/02\/23\/media-silent-as-biden-illegally-holds-unaccompanied-migrant-children-says-border-patrol-union\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/02\/23\/media-silent-as-biden-illegally-holds-unaccompanied-migrant-children-says-border-patrol-union\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Silent as Biden Illegally Holds Unaccompanied Migrant Children, Says Border Patrol Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}