President Joe Biden is spending $86 million on hotel rooms near the border to house migrants.

In the fallout of the Trump era of immigration policy, Biden said he’d be taking on a ‘top-to-bottom review of recent regulations, policies, and guidance that have set up barriers to our legal immigration system’.

However, Biden was criticized for reopening a detention center.

 Axios reported that the Biden administration secured an $86 million contract for hotel rooms to house immigrants and is said to be able to support 1,200 family members.

The contract —which will see the rooms remain available for six months— was awarded via Texas-based nonprofit organization Endeavors. This comes amid overwhelming numbers of people trying to enter the US.

The Washington Post estimated it could be anywhere up to two million migrants this year alone, the biggest surge in decades. Just between January and February this year, the number of migrant family members found trying to enter the US on the southwestern border increased from 7,000 to nearly 19,000.

Of those family members that are trying to cross, 13,000 have been allowed to enter the country, where they have often been released into border communities.

CNN reported that there are currently 5,000 unaccompanied children in US Customs and Border Protection ‘jail-like’ custody, with more than 600 children having been detained for longer than 10 days.

Under federal law, unaccompanied children must be transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services within 72 hours but due to the current strain amid the pandemic and rising numbers, the supposed limit hasn’t always been regulated.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy recently throw his criticisms at Biden, blaming the entire ‘border crisis’ on the president.

“It’s more than a crisis; it’s a human heartbreak. The sad part about that is this didn’t have to happen. This crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration,” McCarthy said.