translated from Spanish: Pentagon looking for base to accommodate 5,000 migrant children

WASHINGTON (AP) _ the Department of Defense is reviewing several military bases in order to find one with capacity to accommodate up to 5,000 migrant minors, in preparation of the Government to deal with an increase in the number of people who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States in the coming months. The Department of health and human services (HHS for its acronym in English) asked the space last week when officials of the Department of Homeland Security warned that tens of thousands of families cross the border each month. This tide of migrants will be intensified in the spring, when the weather is better, said Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen. The Pentagon last year approved the use of the Goodfellow of the Air Force Base, near San Angelo, Texas, to meet a request for HHS accommodate 20,000 children. The legal and environmental requirements were completed, but the HHS did not formally request the use of the base.

Photo: AFP the authorities said space extra was not necessary and that there were also concerns that HHS lacked the resources to build a needed shelter and other facilities of support at the base. The Lieutenant-Colonel of the army, Jamie Davis, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said Tuesday that under which the request of HHS space is lower than last year, the Department is doing another review. It is unknown if the Pentagon will propose again to Goodfellow or if there is another military base that already have facilities that can accommodate fewer people. 

Photo: AFP the Secretary of HHS, Alex Azar, addressed the topic of child migrants during a hearing Saturday before the Committee on energy and Commerce of the House of Representantes.Azar noted that HHS has asked 1,300 million dollars in the budget year fi SCAL 2020 and the creation of a contingency fund of 2,000 million dollars. 
We have asked enough, but children are a major financial burden on the pace coming, he added. 

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