The Trump administration is seeking to hire a private contractor to transport approximately 225,000 illegal immigrants to shelters across the U.S. over the next five years while their asylum claims are being processed.
ICE (the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) is seeking the services of a “highly responsible” contractor that “fully embraces the philosophy” of treating all unaccompanied minors (UACs) and family units (FAMUs) with “dignity and respect,” according to a federal procurement document dated May 13.
The private company will be hired to transport approximately 60,000 people a year. It will work to arrange commercial flights and ground transportation for migrant children up to age 17 as well as adults with children and will provide food, clothing and hygiene products during transit.
The administration seems to be planning to place the majority into what are called Sanctuary Cities and Democratic strongholds as the President indicated in April.
Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
….The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
The Trump administration is about to move hundreds of illegals from overcrowded camps along the U.S. border into Florida’s Democratic Broward and Palm Beach counties, with a plan to dump about 1,000 more each month.
Broward Mayor Mark Bogen and Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said they were told to expect two planeloads of immigrants each week, starting in about two weeks. The 270 weekly passengers — about 1,000 each month — would be split, with half going to Palm Beach County and half to Broward.
Confusion and disbelief swirled late Thursday around the reports, which were not confirmed or acknowledged by the Trump administration. Local members of Congress, Florida’s two Republican senators and even Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said they didn’t know about it.
“The governor’s office was not informed of this decision,” his spokeswoman said in an email. “Florida counties do not have the resources to accommodate an influx of illegal immigrants.”
In an afternoon news conference organized after the news broke, Sheriff Bradshaw said the Miami border patrol operations chief “came up” to talk to him about it earlier this week.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, a DeSantis appointee, also said he was advised, but not by border patrol. In an email, Tony said the information, which “was also shared with me by my trusted colleague” Bradshaw, was not confirmed by state or federal officials. He said he passed it on to Bogen so Broward could be prepared, and is “currently awaiting a scheduled calendar meeting with my County Commissioners.”
The federal government isn’t offering to help, he said.
“No accommodations for transportation leaving there. No accommodations for shelter or a place to live. Just no real plan what is going to happen to these people,” Bradshaw said.
Housing, food, health care and schooling for the children will be up to local communities, he and Bogen said.
“I asked if there was an end date to this and they said no,” Bradshaw said in the news conference.
There was no mention of immigrants being transferred to Miami-Dade or any other Florida county.
Palm Beach County Mayor Mack Bernard said that the county would do what it could to help and would demand reimbursement from the federal government. He said a state of emergency might need to be declared.
Commissioner Melissa McKinlay said the federal government should provide funds upfront to care for the migrants. She questioned the logic of the plan.
Source: Fox News, Sun Sentinel
Good they want them let them take care of them buffoons