NOTE: Before answering the questions, read the “Background” and watch the video under “Resources.”

1. a) What is the capacity of the US Customs and Border Protection facility in Donna, Texas?
b) How many children are being held in this facility?

2. Where are the youngest unaccompanied children - ages 3-9 - held?

3. a) Where do the unaccompanied children eventually go?
b) What are sponsors?

4. What types of individual medical conditions were the children examined for?

5. a) The medical histories of the children and potential previous contact with covid positive people are unknown. Were they all given covid tests?
b) Why do you think this is so?
c) In the San Diego facility, it was reported that 10% of children tested positive for covid. (No report on the Donna facility.) What should the Biden administration do about the close contact living conditions of the children housed in the CBP facilities?
d) Have you had to have covid tests for school or to play a sport?

6. a) What were the children who had a contact in the US allowed to do?
b) What did the children who traveled to the U.S. unaccompanied and don’t have a contact in the U.S. do?

7. a) Which children were fingerprinted and had their photo taken?
b) Why do you think is it important to do this?
c) Some Republicans have suggested that all of those crossing the border should have DNA samples taken. How would this help protect the children? Explain your answer.

8. Consider the following:

• Joe Biden was a U.S. senator for almost 40 years. He first took office during the Nixon administration, before President Nixon resigned (in 1974) following the Watergate scandal.
• Mr. Biden was also vice president under Barack Obama for 8 years, during which time the first huge border crisis (2014) of unaccompanied children occurred. (The Democrats held the majority in both the House and the Senate under President Obama / VP Biden, yet Congress never acted to fix immigration law.)
• During his time in office in which another influx of unaccompanied children occurred, President Trump put in place several measures to solve the crisis (the “Remain in Mexico” policy, began building a border wall and ended President Obama’s “Catch and Release” program).
• Upon taking office, President Biden froze the funding President Trump had secured for the border wall, ended the Remain in Mexico police and reinstated the “Catch and Release” program.
• President Biden has refused to visit the border or call the largest number of migrants coming in in 20 years a crisis. (The media also refuses to use the word crisis.)
• President Biden has no plans to visit the border to observer conditions firsthand. Over a week ago, the president appointed Vice President Kamala Harris as his "immigration czar" to solve the crisis on the border. The president said he was giving her a "tough job" but that she was "the most qualified person to do it.” Vice President Harris has yet to say if/when she will visit the border.

Republicans (and some Democrats, especially those in or representing border towns) have asked President Biden to reimplement Trump’s policies that worked to solve the crisis.
What do you think? Should President Biden do so? Explain your answer.

9. a) Why do you think the Biden administration blocked all reporters from visiting the CBP facilities until this week, while the Trump administration gave them access?
b) Why do you think only 2 news organizations - CBS and Associated Press - were finally given access by the Biden administration, while all other media outlets were denied access?