There's no indication the national baby formula shortage is connected to the distribution of formula to migrant babies in U.S. border custody.
— Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday forcefully denounced the connection some Republican lawmakers have made between theand the availability of formula at migrant holding facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We are taking care of the basic needs of people in our custody. We are taking care of the basic needs of babies, and that includes baby formula," Mayorkas told CBS News during an interview Tuesday near the Texas border."The connection between honoring our humanitarian and legal obligation to those babies and a supply issue in the interior of the United States is false and repugnant.
In one of those interviews, Cammack said"no one is arguing that we shouldn't have for babies at the border," but suggested, citing no evidence, that the Biden administration was prioritizing the distribution of formula to migrant babies amid the national shortage. Several conservative politicians echoed Cammack's statements, including Texas' Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who accused the Biden administration of being"happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming" while American parents struggled to find baby formula.
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