Border Detention Center Receiving ‘Pallets’ of Baby Formula amid Shortage, Lawmaker Says
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Representative Kat Cammack (R., Fla.) on Thursday shared images that purported to show “pallets” of infant formula at a migrant processing facility near the U.S.-Mexico border at a time when many Americans are contending with a formula shortage caused by supply chain issues and product recalls.
“The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula,” she wrote in a tweet showing dozens of boxes of baby formula, including Nido and Advantage brands.
The first photo is from this morning at the Ursula Processing Center at the U.S. border. Shelves and pallets packed with baby formula.
The second is from a shelf right here at home. Formula is scarce.
This is what America last looks like. pic.twitter.com/OO0V99njoy
— 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,” she added.
“We literally are struggling to find baby formula around the country,” Cammack said in a Facebook Live stream Wednesday. “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 and said, ‘This is disgusting. You will not believe this. They’re receiving pallets, and more pallets of baby formula at the border.'”
She added: “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.”
Cammack’s office told the New York Post that while the agent did not say how often the processing center receives shipments, that the shipments pictured in the images the congresswoman shared “were just a few” of what was delivered on Wednesday morning.
American retailers were unable to stock 40 percent of the top-selling baby formula products as of the week ending April 24, according to an analysis by Datasembly cited by CBS News. The shortage comes after Abbott, one of the country’s largest formula manufacturers, faced a large safety recall at a time that supply chain disruptions were already impacting formula supply.
More than 100 House Republicans on Wednesday wrote a letter to President Biden asking him to treat the shortage “with the appropriate urgency it deserves.”
