US foster care system already stretched to the max as unaccompanied minors continue to cross southern border

After being stretched by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. foster care system has another challenge ahead: an unprecedented number of unaccompanied migrant children coming over the southern border.

"We tried to figure out the pandemic, how to handle it. Now we’re trying to figure out this mass influx of children that are unaccompanied," Irene Clements, executive director of the National Foster Parent Association, told Fox News in an interview. "It's pretty much nationwide there's a lack of foster families to meet the needs, especially during COVID." Five Republican governors — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon — recently told the Biden administration they won't house migrant children through their state foster care systems as the government scrambles to deal with federal facilities that are at capacity. The Biden administration has even asked NASA employees to volunteer at overcrowded border facilites.