The Biden Administration has posted a job opening in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for a "Field Program Specialist" whose duties include "expedit[ing migrant] children's discharge" into the interior of the United States.
Pay ranges from $46,083 to $143,598 per year and applicants are encouraged to apply on USAJobs.gov.
The job's responsibilities include "interview[ing] unaccompanied children in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody and collect[ing] contact information for parents in home country and family members in the US" as well as "efficiently collect[ing] and provid[ing] information to ORR to enable the National Call Center to begin contacting parents and family members to expedite children's discharge to a US family member sponsor."
Successful applicants will also "assist CBP and ORR in identifying children requiring prioritization for placement based on vulnerable category or time in CBP custody."
In other words, these field program specialists will work to process the children in custody as quickly as possible and assist in their migration across the country.
The Biden Administration has come under fire in recent months over a massive surge at the southern border that has resulted in record numbers of unaccompanied children and family units illegally crossing into the United States and presenting themselves to Border Patrol agents while claiming asylum.
President Biden used an executive order in the first days of his presidency to end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, which required asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their claims were processed. Since more than 90 percent of illegal immigrants did not have a valid asylum claim, they would not be able to disappear into the interior of the US and live illegally. This dissuaded massive numbers of Central American migrants from making the dangerous journey north.
Once the Biden Administration reversed this policy and tried to freeze deportations for 100 days, an unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants flooded the border attempting to take advantage of the lax rules.
As a result, nearly half of all Border Patrol agents have been reassigned to dangerously overcrowded detention facilities and tent camps, leaving the border largely unpatrolled. Now the Biden Administration is seeking to alleviate this by hiring an unspecified number of field specialists. The job opening was first posted on March 25th and candidates can apply until this Friday.