Joe Biden allocates $86 million to rehouse migrant families in hotels

The new contract will help to house over 1,000 migrants

The Biden Administration is spending $86 million on hotel rooms to rehouse migrants close to the US-Mexico border, it has been revealed. A non-profit organisation called 'Endeavors' has said that the Department of Homeland Security “has contracted with Endeavors to provide critical services to migrant families", which will move migrant families from detention centres in the country to hotels. The contract, which is set to last six months, will ensure that 1,2000 migrants are provided with rooms. The move represents a shift which many will see as a positive from Joe Biden, whose administration was criticised early upon taking office for not dismantling Donald Trump's apparatus of child detention with great speed. Previously, child migrants were held in for-profit detention centres, conditions at which have been described by Human Rights Watch as "inhumane". In January, Biden ordered the justice department not to renew any of its contract with for-profit detention centres. The new plans come as record numbers of people are attempting to enter the country, with the US estimated to receive up to 2 million migrants this year, according to reporting by the Washington Post.