FEMA. is coordinating the response to the problem. The Department of Defense is providing emergency beds for unaccompanied minors. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has greatly expanded its ability to detain and remove families. We have surged Border Patrol agents. immigration judges. and other personnel to the border to help process people. These measures have been working. For example. the amount of time people are detained before they are removed has decreased from over a month to as little as 4 days in recent weeks. Migrant children who were languishing in crowded border patrol stations are being screened and relocated more quickly. But these emergency measures are expensive. and none of the Federal agencies involved have the money they need to sustain the aggressive steps they are taking to deal with this situation. In fact. many agencies have indicated that they will run out of money in a matter of weeks without actionsome even in a few days.
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