Federal workers offered paid leave to take care of migrant children at border: Report
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The Department of Health and Human Services offered federal employees four months of paid leave if they volunteered to help care for a surge of unaccompanied migrant children at immigration shelters near the southern border, according to a report last Saturday.
Officials said border facilities have struggled to hire an adequate number of staffers, due in part to the politically fraught environment surrounding the border crisis. Thousands of unaccompanied minors have remained in custody at border facilities longer than legally permissible amid a record surge. More than 20,000 minors are already being held at government-run shelters. The Biden administration expects the number of migrant children requiring care could exceed 35,000 by June, according to government projections obtained by the Times. In March, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said his department had identified hundreds of volunteers "to support HHS in our collective efforts to address the needs of the unaccompanied children."
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