The White House, under fire about their use of migrant children detention centers that Democrats ripped into under former President Donald Trump, noted Thursday that the facilities are providing educational services — even as schools nationwide struggle to reopen.
Asked about the uptick of migrants at the border — as well as progressive Democrat backlash to the Biden administration’s handling of it through the use of detention centers, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the effort as humane.
“What is happening now is there are children fleeing prosecution, fleeing threats in their own countries, traveling on their own, unaccompanied to the border. And our focus is on approaching this from the view of humanity and with safety in mind,” she told reporters at a White House briefing Thursday.
While the Biden administration continues to make sure those educational facilities are up and operational, Psaki and other officials continue to evolve their stance on in-person schooling.
The administration has shifted its positions on everything from changing timelines on re-opening to concerns about how many days per week students could return for.
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With the exception of the tiny number of schools run by the federal government, opening or closing is not the federal government’s call. Most schools do not have the potential to maintain social distancing on a five day a week schedule — they are too crowded. And most schools built in the past 50 years have inadequate ventilation.
If you still think that opening schools and social distancing have anything to with any medical virus, you need to get your third dosage of the vaccination.
Why would Biden stuff helpless minority children into little cages? That is so inhumane.