Border Detention Centers Look Stocked with Baby Formula Despite U.S. Shortage

[Turd Fergusen]

As American families deal with a shortage of baby formula across the US, a Florida Republican lawmaker has released images of dozens of boxes of the coveted product at a migrant processing facility near the US-Mexico border.

Rep. Kat Cammack shared pictures of “pallets” of infant formula at the Ursula Migrant Processing Center in McAllen, Texas on her Twitter and Facebook pages Wednesday.

“The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula,” she wrote in a tweet accompanying side-by-side photographs of full and bare shelves. “The second is from a shelf right here at home. Formula is scarce. This is what America last looks like.”

Cammack’s office shared several additional images supposedly from the same location with The Post on Thursday.

In a video posted to Facebook, Cammack noted that while migrant children deserve to be fed, the stockpiling was just “another example of the ‘America Last’ agenda.”

“It is not the children’s fault at all,” the congresswoman said. “But what is infuriating to me is that this is another example of the ‘America Last’ agenda the Biden administration continues to perpetuate.”

The images feature dozens of boxes of various baby formula brands, including Nido and Advantage.

“All these processing facilities are receiving pallets of baby formula,” the congresswoman claimed, adding that she was notified earlier in the day that “three more pallets” are on their way to the facility.

Cammack said in her video that she was sent the images by a Border Patrol agent who has worked in his role for “30 years.”

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Border detention center looks stocked with baby formula despite shortage

A Republican Florida representative shared images of “pallets” of infant formula at the Ursula Migrant Processing Center in McAllen, Texas amid a nationwide shortage.

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[Sugar Cookie]

This made me so mad when I heard about this earlier in the day.

I can't even put into words what I am feeling.

The Dems really hate American babies unless they are getting aborted.

 

[BBBLUE77]

Just another prime example of sacrificing Americans over illegals. 'America Last' indeed.

I agree with @Sugar Cookie, dead babies don't need to be fed. What a bass-ackwards, convoluted, f*cked up world we live in.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday criticized the Biden administration for providing baby formula to migrant children in holding facilities amid a nationwide shortage.

The comments came as President Joe Biden spoke with CEOs from baby formula companies on Thursday to hasten to get more baby formula supplies on shelves nationwide and limit restrictions, senior administration officials said.

In a joint statement by Abbott and Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd on Thursday said: “Children are our most vulnerable, precious Texans and deserve to be put first. Yet, President Biden has turned a blind eye to parents across America who are facing the nightmare of a nationwide baby formula shortage.

While mothers and fathers stare at empty grocery store shelves in a panic, the Biden Administration is happy to provide baby formula to illegal immigrants coming across our southern border. This is yet another one in a long line of reckless, out-of-touch priorities from the Biden Administration when it comes to securing our border and protecting Americans.

Our children deserve a president who puts their needs and survival first – not one who gives critical supplies to illegal immigrants before the very people he took an oath to serve.”

Migrant advocates reacted angrily Thursday to Abbott’s statement.

“Children need nutrition,” Joshua Rubin, of the organization Witness At the Border, told Border Report. “You make a 1,500-mile journey with babes in arms. They’re going to need to be fed and any decent human being looks for a way to feed them, not for a way to deprive them.”

“Gov. Abbott has a political agenda that’s willing to punish children instead of here, in the richest nation on earth, figuring out a way to make sure all of God’s children have enough formula,” Rubin said.

“It’s so unfortunate that our governor is so short-sighted in his thinking. And is instead interested in stoking, xenophobia, racism and fear in an environment where we can be acting out of abundance, versus a scarcity mentality,” said Marisa Limón Garza, senior director for advocacy and programming for Hope Border Institute in El Paso, Texas.

“These children, all children, deserve access to a full life including food, shelter and love. If we collaborated and thought creatively about expanding our resources verses focusing on political theatre, we just might be able to feed every child regardless of status,” Garza told Border Report.

“It’s unbelievable. This is precisely when you believe you already touched bottom in terms of anti-immigrant and anti-humanity statements and policies fermented by the governor, then you see this. How he’s using children — babies — as part of his distorted political platform,” Fernando Garcia, founder and executive of the Border Network for Human Rights, a border rights coalition based in El Paso.

“He’s not only demonizing immigrants in Texas by calling them criminals and rapists but now to this extent that he is using immigrant children and babies as part of his political gain. That is shameful,” said Garcia, whose group was in McAllen on Thursday after a two-week tour of the Texas border that started in El Paso, to call for better migrant rights.

In a call with media on Thursday afternoon, White House senior administration officials explained the baby formula shortage began on Feb. 17 when the nation’s largest infant formula manufacturer in the country, Abbott Nutrition, initiated a voluntary recall of several lines of formula after concerns of possible bacterial contamination at its manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan.

Four infants became ill and two died in late 2021 and early 2022 prior to the voluntary recall.


On Thursday, “President Joe Biden spoke with retailers and manufacturers, including the CEOs of Walmart, Target, Mead Johnson and Gerber to talk to them about the work they are doing and call on them to do all they can to help families purchase and access infant formula,” a senior administration official said.


They discussed how to faster stock shelves and other companies taking up the slack of inventory in Abbott Nutrition’s absence.


They also discussed “additional steps to get more infant formula onto store shelves as quickly as possible without compromising safety,” a senior administration official said.


This includes the following:

• Increasing imports of baby formula.
• Calling on the FTC and state attorneys general “to crack down on price gouging and unfair market practices related to the sales of infant formula,” officials said.
• Cutting red tape and restrictions to get more infant formula to store shelves by urging states to provide flexibility in the WIC program.

WIC programs typically authorize the purchase of 12-ounce formula containers, but the administration wants to cut out that requirement to allow WIC families to buy 32-ounce containers and that would allow manufacturers to produce more product in larger batches quicker, senior administration officials said.


“This administration is working around the clock to do everything we can to bring as much production to market while protecting the safety and wellbeing of families,” a senior administration official said.

Texas governor says feds shouldn’t give migrant babies formula amid U.S. shortage

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I can understand the migrants wanting a better life and taking advantage of the freebies but when you break it down they and their advocates are selfish, greedy and entitled.

My children mean just as much and more to me than a baby that is being dragged across the desert - not sorry.

 

[Satanica]

My son was allergic to ingredients in the formula, so I had him on goat's milk instead. Doctors frown on that nowadays. A friend from high school made her own formula which is also discouraged now.

Just keep that goat's milk in mind, people. My son didn't have a single bad reaction to it. We would go to the lady's farm and she would milk the goat right in front of me and it then went into my own glass container. I don't know how many people are still selling it or how hard the government may have suppressed it over the years though. It's also available canned, but the taste is not nearly as good. When it's fresh, it's not very "goaty" at all. There's a thick layer of cream that will form on top, because it's not homogenized.

 

[Blizzard]

We would go to the lady's farm and she would milk the goat right in front of me and it then went into my own glass container.

betcha illegal these days unless it was given to you instead of sold cuz raw milk?

 

[cubby]

My younger son had a reaction to most every kind of formula/milk I tried, throwing up like you don't ever want to see out of small baby. He did survive without drinking formula or milk.

I was thinking that babies did live in the "olden" days before formula and baby foods. You are allowed to make your own. I know it's not what you want to do, but you can do it and it's not that hard.

 

[Blizzard]

The images feature dozens of boxes of various baby formula brands, including Nido and Advantage.

“All these processing facilities are receiving pallets of baby formula,” the congresswoman claimed, adding that she was notified earlier in the day that “three more pallets” are on their way to the facility.

geezus! Amazing to see US gov in that crazy a shape. And the population is stuck with it apparently, unless its possible to somehow impeach and remove the whole bunch of crooks.

 

[Metalfan]

Well those things aren't something to just look at.

 

[Hermy]

Will baby formula become the new bootleg whiskey? There could be money to be made from smuggling it in from Canada. Where's Big Al when we need him?

ETA: There are videos on Youtube showing how to make home brew ... er, I mean baby formula.

 

[ronda2711]

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go without




let the bastards starve!!





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[Totemic]

Also a trick from the ages gone: Condensed milk and kero syrup.