US Secretary of Defense James Mattis hosts an enhanced honor cordon welcoming German Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen at the Pentagon on June 20, 2018 in Washington,DC. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm
The Pentagon will prepare to house up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on military bases, a US military spokesman said Thursday.
The decision follows a request from the US Department of Health and Human Services “to determine its capabilities to provide up to 20,000 temporary beds for unaccompanied alien children at DoD (Department of Defense) installations,” Pentagon spokesman Jamie Davis told AFP.
The request came one day after President Donald Trump moved to end the practice of splitting migrant families, with over 2,300 children recently separated from their…
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