{"id":1479472,"date":"2022-05-18T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479472"},"modified":"2022-05-18T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T15:44:51","slug":"mayorkas-responds-to-claims-that-migrants-are-getting-pallets-of-baby-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-responds-to-claims-that-migrants-are-getting-pallets-of-baby-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayorkas Responds To Claims That Migrants Are Getting \u2018Pallets\u2019 Of Baby Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayorkas-responds-to-claims-that-migrants-are-getting-pallets-of-baby-formula%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas responded Tuesday to claims the administration is giving \u201cpallets\u201d of baby formula to migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas argued Tuesday on CBS News that the connection drawn by some Republicans between the national baby formula shortage and the availability of formula at migrant detention facilities is \u201cfalse and repugnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are taking care of the basic needs of people in our custody,\u201d Mayorkas said, according to CBS News. \u201cWe are taking care of the basic needs of babies, and that includes baby formula. 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.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/msnbc-katie-tur-grills-xavier-becerra-baby-formula-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u201dSoon\u2019 Sounds Good If You Don\u2019t Have A Baby Who\u2019s Hungry\u2019: Now Even MSNBC Is Grilling Biden Officials Over Formula Shortage)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican Florida Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/formula-babies-border-migrants-supply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kat Cammack alleged<\/a> migrants were receiving ample supplies of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/13\/bette-midler-tweet-breastfeeding-baby-formula-shortage-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">baby formula<\/a> while American families are experiencing shortages nationwide. Cammack shared a photo on Twitter purportedly showing photos taken by a McAllen, Texas border patrol agent that showed fully stocked shelves of formula.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula.<\/p>\n<p>The second is from a shelf right here at home. Formula is scarce.<\/p>\n<p>This is what America last looks like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OO0V99njoy\">pic.twitter.com\/OO0V99njoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kat Cammack (@Kat_Cammack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kat_Cammack\/status\/1524427674638336001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cammack <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/cYP3KUne5j\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during a recent Facebook livestream that a border patrol agent sent her the pictures and told her \u201cthis is disgusting. You will not believe this. They\u2019re receiving pallets, and more pallets of baby formula at the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid the nationwide shortage, the Food and Drug Administration (FDAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/food-and-drug-administration-baby-formula-import-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> Monday it would relax import rules and allow <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/13\/brian-deese-biden-administration-knew-formula-shortage-february\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formula<\/a> to be imported from Mexico, Ireland and the Netherlands. Companies will need to receive FDA approval.<\/p>\n<p>By April 24, 40% of the top baby formula products were out of stock, CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/baby-formula-shortage-rationing-national-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. The FDA also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/fda-abbott-baby-formula-plant-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed<\/a>\u00a0a Michigan Abbott Nutrition plant to begin producing formula again after a February shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas responded Tuesday to claims the administration is giving \u201cpallets\u201d of baby formula to migrants.Mayorkas argued Tuesday on CBS News that the connection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1483561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}