It's today explained I'm Halima Shah filling in for Sean Rama's firm today.

The U.S. is seeing more and more unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border.

So many that the White House is considering repurposing military bases and a NASA site

into temporary shelters for kids.

And now being housed in facilities meant for adults.

The Biden administration, conceding they need more space.

The options here are send the kids back on the journey, send them to unbedded homes, or

work to expedite moving them into shelters where they can get a health treatment by medical

doctors.

As of Tuesday night, there were over 13,000 unaccompanied minors in U.S. custody, including

a record number in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection specifically.

We haven't had updated numbers from CPP on this, but as of Sunday morning, more than 4,000

unaccompanied children were in Border Protection custody.

They're not supposed to be in that custody for more than 72 hours, but Biden administration

has been really struggling to keep pace with the number of people arriving on the southern

border before they can transfer them to the Department of Health and Human Services,

which is authorized to administer care to children.

These are now either in permanent shelters operated by that agency or in some new temporary

facilities that have been opened along the border, including in Carissa Springs, Texas,

which was a tent facility that opened under the Trump administration, but that the Biden

administration is now reopened.

Axios reports the White House may need as many as 20,000 total beds.

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