Officials have warned that there will be more deaths of children at border stations if Health and Human Services does not increase its capacity.
would mean overcrowding in facilities run by Border Patrol, the first agency to receive all undocumented migrants apprehended for crossing illegally, according to two of the U.S officials.
But officials from Customs and Border Protection , the subdivision of DHS that runs the Border Patrol, projected a surge in the number of unaccompanied children arriving at the southern border as the weather improved into the spring. Rather than placing 250 children per day in HHS care, CBP said the agency should be taking in closer to 350 per day in order to keep from overcrowding.
"To help estimate capacity needs, we are in daily contact with DHS regarding numbers of children being referred to HHS for care with priority given to minors pending placement," she said.Sixteen-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, who died after being diagnosed with a strain of the potent H1N1 flu virus, was the third child to die in Border Patrol custody since December.
"This is largely indicative of the crush of a demographic we are not prepared for," the ICE official said about the backlog of children.
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