The first migrant facility for children has opened its doors under Biden's administration. The emergency facility is in Carrizo Springs, Texas.

"The emergency facility — a vestige of the Trump administration that was open for only a month in summer 2019 — is being reactivated to hold up to 700 children ages 13 to 17. At the 66-acre site, groups of beige trailers encircle a giant white dining tent, a soccer field and a basketball court. There is a bright blue hospital tent with white bunk beds inside. A legal services trailer has the Spanish word “Bienvenidos,” or welcome, on a banner on its roof," the Washington Post reports.

Immigration lawyers and advocates are however questioning why the Biden administration chose to reopen a Trump-era facility that was the source of so much protest due to its conditions and lack of transparency.

Linda Brandmiller - an immigration lawyer who represents minors - says that Biden has gone against his own campaign promise of undoing Trump’s hardline immigration policies.

Ana Kasparian agreed, saying, "if Trump got a backlash for it, it's strange that the media's attention on Biden for doing this is different."

Moreover, the Biden administration is using the pandemic as an excuse. "Government officials say the camp is needed because facilities for migrant children have had to cut capacity by nearly half because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border has been inching up, with January reporting the highest total — more than 5,700 apprehensions — for that month in recent years," the Post writes.

Mark Weber, a spokesperson for the HHS spoke to the Post. He said there "were about 7,000 children in HHS custody, over 90 percent capacity under pandemic-era requirements." "Carrizo is expected to close when the pandemic ends," he added.

Guest host and TYT contributor Ryan Grim said that that is unlikely. The way to avoid migrant facilities "isn't even something that's conceivable in our political environment," he says.

"The US government has spent the last 70 years violently stopping Central American countries from setting up stable social democracies. If that's the history, then the answer is, the US needs to give sanctuary to the people from the problems that the US has created. That's not something that's remotely getting talked about," he added.

It’s however important to point to the fact that Biden did sign some executive orders that would reverse some of Trump's actions. The Biden administration reversed Trump’s expulsion practices by accepting unaccompanied children into the country, a change that also is contributing to an increase of minors in government facilities.

He proposed a pathway to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. But that pathway would take 8 years if the proposal passes. Kasparian says, “It likely won’t.”

"It's just a continuation of a pattern that we’ve seen in regard to foreign policy in the United states. At the same time as Joe Biden has proposed the 8-year pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, he has simultaneously approved migrant facilities," she adds.

It's also important to note that temporary influx centers like Carrizo are not subject to state licensing requirements like others. They are also more expensive, costing $775 a day per child vs. $290 a day when compared to other child migrant facilities.

"HHS said its goal is that children will remain at Carrizo for about 30 days, though they are coming from at least two weeks of quarantine at other Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities in the region. The average stay for children in custody across its facilities is 42 days," the Post writes.

In 2020 migrant children spent appoximately 120 days in such facilities.