Want to tell you something about buying a plane ticket and flying before the pandemic.
When my mother passed about five years ago, I had to fly on about three or four days’ notice to go to the funeral. Otherwise, I would have been driving for two straight days. The night before I left, my wife helped me pack and to figure out everything I would need for a two-day stay. I was kind of a mess but you get the picture.
Anyway, I booked the plane ticket and paid through the nose for it but had money set aside for emergencies so it really wasn’t an immediate hit. The round trip ticket cost me well over a thousand dollars. Do you know what I didn’t have happen? The government didn’t pay for the ticket.
This week, the Biden administration began to feel the heat on immigration for the first time.
Due to the fact the new president is pushing eventual amnesty for illegal immigrants who were in the country prior to Jan. 1 and is looking to expand the refugee resettlement program, there’s been an influx of migrants trying to enter the United States. This includes a number of unaccompanied minors who have to be quarantined and processed before they’re apportioned to sponsors.
Because of a lack of capacity, the Biden administration was forced to reopen a facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, for illegal immigrant minors awaiting placement.
Perhaps President Joe Biden and his team knew this was coming. Perhaps they were fully aware that their immigration policy wasn’t going to be the slam dunk with progressives they imagined it would be. Or maybe they just wanted the fastest way to avoid any kind of “kids in cages” narrative taking hold again.
Whatever the case, they’re just going to avoid the publicity altogether and fly (or, in some cases, bus) unaccompanied minors to homes throughout the United States.
According to Breitbart, the Department of Health and Human Services said its Office of Refugee Resettlement has “authorized programs to pay transport fees for unaccompanied children (including airline tickets), including escort transport (where necessary by airline or ORR policy) in order to facilitate release of children to approved sponsors.”
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