Biden Administration Ends Plan to Send Veterans Affairs Staffers to Border

A group of Hondurans cross the Rio Grande toward Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, on April 21, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The Biden administration has scrapped its plan to send workers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help with the border crisis, a top official said on May 4.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that the administration had decided against sending VA staffers to the U.S.–Mexico border.