Why doesn’t the federal government run migrant centers?

[Pres Mike]

Something I’m very confused about and can’t find a straight answer on google

Migrants will arrive at the US-Mexican border at federal checkpoints. They will apply for asylum with US Border Patrol, a federal agency.

Once they file an official asylum request, they will be sent to migrant facilities run by the state of Texas. Or by a private organization. Or by a local city or county government. The city of Brownsville TX has its own city run migrant center, partner with local groups.

But why? This allows Texas Governor Abbot to say his faculties are “overrun” and he ships them to other parts of the country.

Surely the federal government has its own migrant facilities. Do they not have enough? Why use Texas, a state that isn’t remotely interested in helping.

The immigration backlog is well known and atrocious. Migrants wait months, sometimes years to go in front of a judge to get asylum. This is unacceptable and must be fixed. But until than, why doesn’t the federal government just build more federal processing facilities? 

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Federalist insanity. Nixon deserves all the torture he inflicted on red state minorities and then some.

[Pres Mike]

Federalist insanity. Nixon deserves all the torture he inflicted on red state minorities and then some.

Nixon wanted states to run migrant facilities?

[Redban]

Probably a question of resources. NYC has about 60k migrants under their care right now (or so they claim), and they spent $5.5 billion in the current fiscal year (and estimated $12-15 billion over the next 3 years) to give them food, shelter, and medical care etc

Through July of this year, the USA as a whole has gotten about 820,500 new migrants who got notices to appear before an immigration judge (and that doesn’t account for migrants who never got caught or entered into the system).

So if NYC spent $5 billion to feed, shelter, and care for approximately 60k migrants, you’re looking at possibly $70 billion per year for the feds to do it for all of them, not even counting the costs of hiring more staff and building more shelters

That might be why they rely on the private sector, like this place: https://ozanambrownsvillecenter.org/