(03 26 21 ) Trump appeared on the Fox News Channel to react to President Biden’s comments about the border crisis during the first press conference of his administration. The former president called conditions inside migrant facilities “inhumane,” adding that, “These children and people are, tremendous number of children by the way, and they are living on top of each other. In squalor. It is squalor.”
“They’re living in very dangerous conditions, there’s no testing for COVID-19,” the former president added. “That’s why they won’t allow the press to come in. We let the press go in.”
As of today, roughly 18,000 unaccompanied migrant minors are in U.S. custody, including close to 5,500 held in Border Patrol facilities, CBS News reports. Various facilities are plagued by extreme overcrowding, while some migrants have been let into the country without first testing for the coronavirus.