My amendment will address a serious issue relating to unaccompanied alien children being housed at the Department of Defense facilities across the United States. The Department of Health and Human Services has recently made agreements with various defense facilities across the U.S. about housing unaccompanied minors who are caught crossing the southern border. The large number of migrants from Central and South America crossing our southern border is a serious humanitarian crisis. and I understand the need to responsibly handle this situation with compassion. That said. it simply makes no sense for these individuals to be held at military installations. These facilities often pose serious safety issues for children. Some of the children could be placed near live artillery ranges around active military airfields. I represent a district in coastal Alabama. and my office recently learned that the Department of Health and Human Services was evaluating housing illegal immigrants at Navy outlying airfields right near the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Chairman. these are airfields where they do touchandgoes. where you have pilots that are being trained trying to learn how to do it right.
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