By Jack Phillips
May 12, 2022 Updated: May 13, 2022
A House
Republican lawmaker alleged that baby
formula is being shipped to illegal immigrant holding centers near
the Mexico border amid a nationwide shortage of the products.
According
to videos and photos posted by Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), the White House has
allowed shipments of formula to the holding facilities.
The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula.
— Kat Cammack (@Kat_Cammack) May 11, 2022
The second is from a shelf right here at home. Formula is scarce.
This is what America last looks like. pic.twitter.com/OO0V99njoy
“They
are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border,” Cammack wrote
in two online postings Wednesday. “Meanwhile, in our own district at home, we
cannot find baby formula,” she added, holding a photo of empty shelves where
the formula would be.
Cammack
said in two videos that
a Border Patrol agent sent her photographs of baby formula deliveries at the
holding centers.
“We
literally are struggling to find baby formula around the country. Moms are
struggling, going from store to store to store and then the stores are actually
capping the amount of baby formula that they will sell them, but, and this got
sent to me by a Border Patrol agent this morning [who] said, ‘This is
disgusting. You will not believe this. They’re receiving pallets, and more
pallets of baby formula at the border,’” Cammack said.
“Meanwhile,
in our own district … we cannot find baby formula,” Cammack added in the
clip. She posted photos on social media of store shelves that were empty
in Florida next to a photo that allegedly shows pallets of formula being sent
to the border.
The
second photo, she claimed, was taken on May 11 at the “Ursula processing
facility” in Hidalgo, Texas, where thousands of people are being held. The
individual who sent her the photo “has been a border patrol agent for 30 years
and he has never seen anything quite like this. He is a grandfather and he is
saying that his own children can’t get baby formula,” the Texas lawmaker said.
The
Epoch Times has contacted the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for
comment. The Epoch Times also could not immediately verify Cammack’s claims.
The
White House has expressed concern about the shortage, while a leading
manufacturer of formula, Abbott Laboratories, said that it is working to restart its manufacturing
plant in Sturgis, Michigan, after it was shut down amid a Food and Drug
Administration investigation.
“Ensuring
that infant formula is safe and available for families across the country is a
top priority to the White House,” White House spokeswoman Karinne Jean-Pierre
told reporters Wednesday in response to the crisis.
On
Wednesday, Abbott said in a statement that it could take two weeks for its plant
in Sturgis to come back online, but it stressed that it may take around eight
weeks for formula products to reach shelves
Biden
Invokes Defense Production Act to Accelerate Domestic Production of Baby
Formula
House
Passes 2 Bills Addressing Nationwide Baby Formula Shortages
https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-passes-2-bills-addressing-nationwide-baby-formula-shortages_4476517.html
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