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‘Not Our Problem’: Iowa Governor Rejects White House Plea To House Child Migrants As Admin Flies Kids Cross-Country

Emily Zanotti
‘Not Our Problem’: Iowa Governor Rejects White House Plea To House Child Migrants As Admin Flies Kids Cross-Country
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The White House is now flying unaccompanied minors across the country to emergency housing facilities as it struggles to keep up with the thousands of child migrants flooding across the United States southern border — and Iowa’s Republican governor is now the first to refuse the Biden administration’s pleas to provide temporary housing.

Late last week, Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds “said she has rejected a federal request to accept migrant children into the state, saying the need to find homes for them ‘is the president’s problem,'” per The Associated Press.

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