Texas Democrat calls for migrant 'humanitarian centers,' with limited CBP, ICE oversight

A Texas Democrat is proposing that migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico be placed in "humanitarian centers" rather than facilities run by federal immigration authorities.

Her bill in Congress suggests that the migrants be assigned to facilities run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and staff from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) – rather than sites run by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the report said.

"For decades, our nation’s response to increased migration has relied on militarizing border communities like El Paso instead of addressing root causes and improving the legal systems and regulations to which we subject asylum-seekers," Escobar said, according to the news outlet.