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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 26, 2021

The White House has confirmed that Tennessee is being used as a place to transport unaccompanied migrant children to family members or sponsors, WREG News Channel 3 reports. “Tennessee is a state that is right near and the middle of the country, and some kids have to travel through there to get to their destination,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said recently. The Biden administration is seeking to connect children seeking asylum at the border with sponsors and are using a place in Chattanooga to house and transport some of those children. Matt Maniatis, a Nashville based immigration attorney, tells the station that there is nothing new about the process being used. “This is a program that’s been around for decades. It was the same program under the Trump administration,” Maniatis said.