Report: DHS Believes ‘Family Groups’ To Form Next Phase Of Migrant Crisis, Nearly A Million Immigrants Expected

The Department of Homeland Security believes that nearly a million people will attempt to cross the United States-Mexico border in the coming months as part of a wave of “family groups” seeking asylum in the United States — a new problem that could constitute the “second wave” of the current migrant crisis.

The Biden administration is already struggling to handle an ever-increasing number of child migrants, and it is believed the United States government is now holding around 15,000 unaccompanied minors, captured trying to cross the U.S.’s southern border, in detention facilities across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The numbers are so great that the Biden administration is calling on volunteers from DHS to help staff the facilities and, over the weekend, reportedly waived a requirement mandating that child migrant caregivers pass an FBI background check so that new Health and Human Services (HHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) facilities can open quickly.