Illegal migrants first to get ‘pallets’ of hard-to-find baby formula

The nationwide shortage of baby formula that has sent mothers desperately rushing from store to store has evaded one lucky group: illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol.

According to videos posted by a Florida lawmaker, the Biden administration has been shipping “pallets” of baby formula to migrant holding facilities.

“They are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border,” said Republican Rep. Kat Cammack in one of two online postings yesterday. “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.

The nationwide shortage of baby formula that has sent mothers desperately rushing from store to store has evaded one lucky group: illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol.

According to videos posted by a Florida lawmaker, the Biden administration has been shipping “pallets” of baby formula to migrant holding facilities.

“They are sending pallets, pallets of baby formula to the border,” said Republican Rep. Kat Cammack in one of two online postings yesterday. “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 that a border agent sent her photographs of the deliveries, and she posted one online.

“They’re receiving pallets and more pallets of baby formula at the border,” she said holding one of the photos showing both Advantage brand formula and Gogo Squeez applesauce. “This was taken at Ursula processing facility [in McAllen, Texas] where thousands are being housed and processed and then released,” said Cammack.

She said the agent told her: “‘Kat, you would not believe the shipment I just brought in.’ He 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.”
agent sent her photographs of the deliveries, and she posted one online.

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The shortage was sparked by a manufacturing issue and then a rush on stores. The shortage has become one of the issues coloring the concerns about growing inflation and economic troubles under President Joe Biden.

The New York Times, for example, reported on the troubles Texas parents are having finding the formula that is being shipped by their homes to the migrant holding centers. In a story headlined, “A Baby Formula Shortage Leaves Desperate Parents Searching for Food,” the New York Times said: “Some parents are driving hours at a time in search of supplies. Others are watering down formula or rationing it, hoping for an end to the shortage.”

Cammack was not critical of migrants receiving the formula but said the administration should put American parents first.

“I don't know about you, but if I am a mother, anywhere anytime in America, and I go to my local Walmart or Target or Publix or Safeway or Kroger or wherever it may be that you shop and you are seeing their shelves and you are seeing signs that you are not able to get baby formula. And then you see the American government sending by the pallet thousands and thousands of containers of baby formula to the border, that would make my blood boil," she said.

She added: “It is not the childrens’ fault at all. But what is infuriating to me is that this is another example of the America last agenda that the Biden administration continues to perpetuate.”


 
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Russian Bot said:
Know what human milk isn't high in? Corn syrup.
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Idk, corn syrup is in everything these days so it wouldn't surprise me if it shows up in mom's milk (especially if she consumes a lot of products with corn syrup as an added ingredient).
 
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Know what human milk isn't high in? Corn syrup.
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ok you go look at the molecular structure of the different sugars and come back and tell me why and how it's gonna make that much of a difference.

corn syrup is bad for *you* cause it's sugar and you have a grownass metabolism that grew your brain all the way to its current unfortunate state. it's not bad for *babies* because unlike you they can still be smart.
 
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Dergint said:
The only time I remember ever seeing an ingredients list break things up by percent is pet food, wtf

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For the same reasons too- not because "muh evil chemicals are bad" but because if you're feeding a complicated living organism just one thing, you need to make sure it has everything the creature needs to stay healthy and not die.

Yeah in some kind of trad post-apocalyptic utopia, dogs all eat freshly killed deer and the women never have trouble making enough milk to feed their babies. We don't live there so this rhetoric quickly becomes tiresome.
 
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Notice it's just CORN SYRUP and not "High Fructose Corn Syrup", which is the REAL bad one.

Corn syrup is fine. They need the massive amounts of sugars to fuel the cells which are dividing at a rapid rate while they grow. Corn syrup itself converts immediately to blood sugar, which they need badly.

A chubby baby (not fat, just chubby) is a healthy baby that has the stores to handle the periodic growth spurts. You'd sleep and be hungry a lot too if you were undergoing the cell division they are.
 
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Ser Prize said:
Serious question: why do boobs not work anymore? I get that some people have issues producing milk, but why does it seem to be the norm to feed kids formula these days?
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It's not the norm. Scroll down this page to the chart that shows what percent ever breastfed and how many maintain until 6 months and a year. The USA national average are that 84% at least try to establish breastfeeding, 58% are still doing it at 6 months, and 35% are still doing it when the kid turns a year old. Not bad at all for a country where you aren't even guaranteed paid leave for the first month of your child's life. Almost half exclusively breastfeed through 3 months and a third through 6 months.

It's very hard for women to maintain a milk supply when they are not with their babies. Whether that's because they have to go back to work in a store or factory or office, or because the child is ill in the NICU, the body is a primitive simple thing in some ways and starts to think "well that one doesn't need all these resources, time to dry her up so she can get fertile and make another one." You can try all kinds of hacks to avoid this process of drying out when away from the baby but the thing is, none of them work that well for a lot of women.

Their boobs would mostly work just fine if they didn't have to go back to work. In some cases, PCOS and other hormonal syndromes add to the troubles, but even most of them could manage if not for all the other confounding factors and stressors.
 
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It's not the norm. Scroll down this page to the chart that shows what percent ever breastfed and how many maintain until 6 months and a year. The USA national average are that 84% at least try to establish breastfeeding, 58% are still doing it at 6 months, and 35% are still doing it when the kid turns a year old. Not bad at all for a country where you aren't even guaranteed paid leave for the first month of your child's life. Almost half exclusively breastfeed through 3 months and a third through 6 months.

It's very hard for women to maintain a milk supply when they are not with their babies. Whether that's because they have to go back to work in a store or factory or office, or because the child is ill in the NICU, the body is a primitive simple thing in some ways and starts to think "well that one doesn't need all these resources, time to dry her up so she can get fertile and make another one." You can try all kinds of hacks to avoid this process of drying out when away from the baby but the thing is, none of them work that well for a lot of women.

Their boobs would mostly work just fine if they didn't have to go back to work. In some cases, PCOS and other hormonal syndromes add to the troubles, but even most of them could manage if not for all the other confounding factors and stressors.
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This is a big part of it. Most moms have to go back to work, sometimes almost immediately, whether they want to or not. It's not a matter of being able to stop working because you can't afford childcare or whatever either anymore, now mom has to get a graveyard job so she can be with the baby during the day while dad works. That kind of stress on the body, coupled with not having an appropriate place to pump while at work (yeah, legally it has to be possible for her to be able to pump there, but there's a laundry list of reasons at many different job sites that it's not feasible). That is a fucking reality for American families in the present day, I don't care what your trad utopian nuclear family fantasy consists of, that is the present day reality.
 
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This is a big part of it. Most moms have to go back to work, sometimes almost immediately, whether they want to or not. It's not a matter of being able to stop working because you can't afford childcare or whatever either anymore, now mom has to get a graveyard job so she can be with the baby during the day while dad works. That kind of stress on the body, coupled with not having an appropriate place to pump while at work (yeah, legally it has to be possible for her to be able to pump there, but there's a laundry list of reasons at many different job sites that it's not feasible). That is a fucking reality for American families in the present day, I don't care what your trad utopian nuclear family fantasy consists of, that is the present day reality.
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I have known a lot of couples who worked one on graveyard, one on day so they didn't have to pay for childcare and could afford to live. That sometimes meant things like dad sleeping 4 hours then picking up kids at school, then going to work, while mom works all day and is up with the baby all night. That kind of stress literally takes years off your life expectancy. It's more common than anyone wants to admit, including feminist journo types who think it's all about women needing to work to feel special.
 
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