Three Democratic congresswomen will be denied access by the Trump Administration to tour a government-run center for unaccompanied migrant children on Monday in Homestead, Florida, according to the members of Congress and the administration.
The number of children arriving without a parent at the southern border is expected to surpass the levels during the 2014 unaccompanied minor crisis, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by CNN.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement is preparing for the arrivals of unaccompanied children in their care to double this fiscal year, according to an HHS official.
The Department of Homeland Security will ask the Pentagon this week to approve plans to potentially house more than 7,000 unaccompanied children at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas and 4,000 additional migrant family members at Fort Bliss, according to an administration official.
