DHS formally asks Pentagon to house 12,000 migrant family members

The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday formally requested that the Department of Defense help house and care for 12,000 migrant family members and locate potential facility locations. HHS has assessed facilities on four military bases: Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas, plus three bases in Texas: Dyess Air Force Base, Goodfellow Air Force Base and Fort Bliss. The DHS request for the Pentagon to house comes a week after the Defense Department was asked to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied alien migrant children. All told, the Pentagon has now been asked to house 32,000 migrants, 2,000 beginning in the next 45 days. The migrant children will be housed at Goodfellow Air Force Base, roughly 400 miles to the east in central Texas.

U.S. agency asks military to house up to 12,000 immigrants

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military has been asked by the Department of Homeland Security to house and care for immigrant families totaling up to 12,000 people, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, in the latest sign the military is being drawn into a supporting role for President Donald Trump's immigration policies. The Pentagon said in a statement that the military had been asked to provide the capacity to house 2,000 people within 45 days. On Monday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the military was preparing to house immigrants at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and Goodfellow Air Base in San Angelo, Texas. The U.S. military, and Mattis in particular, have stressed that it is simply providing logistical support to the Department of Homeland Security, which deals with immigration issues. Last week, the U.S. military said it had been asked by the government to get ready to house up to 20,000 immigrant children.

DHS asks Pentagon to help house 12,000 migrants

as declared in (CNN) The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that it has received a request from the Department of Homeland Security "to house and care for an alien family population of up to 12,000 people." The Fort Bliss and Goodfellow proposals would require Defense Secretary Jame Mattis' sign-off, and each would bring on contractors to build temporary structures. According to Wednesday's update, the DHS has also told the Defense Department it prefers the facilities to be built in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico or California. "DHS requires the requested capacity to house 2,000 people within 45 days. A timeline will be developed to add additional capacity," the spokesman said in a statement.

DHS asks military for space to house 12,000 migrant family members

More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents as a result of the "zero tolerance" policy, which was announced in by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in April. The Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday that Customs and Border Protection had reunited more than 500 children separated under the "zero tolerance" policy with their parents. As of Tuesday, 2,047 children were still separated from their parents and in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to officials. The facility will be staffed by Homeland Security officials and there will be no impact to training or military readiness, the officials said. The judge, Dana Sabraw, ordered the government to reunify families with children under the age of 5 within 14 days, and families with children 5 years-old and older within 30 days.




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