Good morning. I'm Jordan Marie Smith from the Washington Post, and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, March 5. In today's news, Megan says the royal family can't

expect her silence if the palace is, quote, perpetuating falsehoods. And David Brooks

of the New York Times is criticized for undisclosed financial ties.

But first, the big idea. The Biden administration is preparing to convert its immigrant family

detention centers in South Texas into Ellis Island style rapid processing hubs. These hubs

will screen migrant parents and children with a goal of releasing them into the United

States within 72 hours. This is according to information obtained by the Washington

Post from the Department of Homeland Security draft plans.

The post, Maria Ciketti, Nick Mirroff, and Sylvia Foster Frao all report that the plans

show the Biden administration is racing to absorb a growing number of migrants crossing

the U.S. Mexico border amid shortages of bed space and personnel. Republicans in some

Democrats fear that relaxing detention policies will exacerbate a surge that is already straining

the Biden administration. Individuals who cannot be housed in one of the rapid processing

centers may need to be placed in hotels in McAllen, Texas, El Paso, and Phoenix. Transforming

a family detention amounts to a wholesale repudiation, not only of Donald Trump's administration

policies, but also those of former President Barack Obama. And it presents a significantly

different vision of how to handle the fast-changing character of mass migration at the southern

border. For decades, single adults, particularly men, dominated the flows northward into

the United States, but the number of families and minors traveling without their parents

has increased substantially in recent years.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, migrant families and unaccompanied minors were a majority

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