Biden Administration Ends Plan to Send Veterans Affairs Staffers to Border
Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 4:30 pm
President Joe Biden’s administration has scrapped its plan to send workers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help with the border crisis, a top official said on May 4. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the administration had decided against attempting to send VA staffers to the U.S.–Mexico border. “We are not making that request of the Veterans Affairs department. And the Veterans Affairs department will not be allocating resources to the border,” Mayorkas told Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A VA spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email that there are “no ongoing conversations about VA health care personnel being diverted from their primary mission of providing care to veterans” but noted that the agency has deployed health care staffers during the pandemic to vaccinate certain immigration enforcement personnel, including Customs and Border Protection employees. ...
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