"This opportunity provides a continuum of care for children, including placements in foster care, shelter, and residential care providers that provide temporary housing and to assist with caring for and placing children without legal immigration status who have entered the country at the southern border without a parent or legal guardian," an email addressed to NASA workers reads.
The Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein first published a screenshot of the email Tuesday afternoon. It appears quite similar to previous appeals sent out to other agencies’ federal employees from the Department of Health and Human Services.
The HHS is requesting that volunteers to apply for a 120-day deployment detail that would send them to the Southwest border to provide direct support for the care of detained migrant children and or to act as interpreters if they have the required language proficiency.
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The reimbursable detail includes travel, lodging and per diem expenses.
NASA and HHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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The call for help comes as the Biden administration is struggling with an influx of migrants – unaccompanied minors in particular – across the border.
Customs and Border Protection encountered above 100,000 migrants in February alone, and there are currently more than 5,000 migrants in CBP custody and more than 11,000 in HHS custody.
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CBP is opening multiple new facilities, including two in Carrizo Springs, Texas and another in San Diego, while also looking at military bases in Texas to house migrant children as it struggles to get enough beds for them. And the Biden administration had floated the idea of using NASA facilities to house some of the influx as well.
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Critics have blamed Biden for the crisis – citing his decision to end Trump-era border policies and his proposal to create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is blatantly blaming former President Trump.
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Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned last month that the border could see more migrants than at any time in the last 20 years.
But Biden later downplayed those concerns and said it is normal to see a surge in migrants between January and March.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, slammed President Biden for undoing Trump's border policies on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday.
“Two and a half months ago, before President Trump left office, he said, you undo our policies, you will get a tidal wave of people flooding our border. That's exactly what we have, cause they undid his remain in Mexico policy while you do the processing. They undid the deportation policy. And as you said, they announced to the world we're not going to finish construction on the wall, even though they're now reconsidering. Those three things have led to the tidal wave ... It's more than a crisis. It is chaos.”
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