The Biden administration predicts the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the southern border — which is already overwhelming federal facilities — will smash records and continue for the next six months, according to a report Monday.

The White House said the number of minors could soar to 26,000 a month in September, dwarfing the 16,000 crossing into the US this month, Axios reported, citing leaked documents. 

The administration is already scrambling to get a handle on the increase, readjusting estimates of roughly 13,000 for this May to between 22,000 and 25,000.

US Customs and Border Protection is predicting a similar range for September — from 22,000 to 26,000.

The escalating numbers will further strain federal border facilities and stretch beyond the seasonal migration patterns, the report said. 

The White House and Department of Homeland Security did not respond to Axios’ requests for comment.

Asked about the migrant rush at his press conference last Thursday, President Biden said “nothing has changed” at the border.

“It happens every single, solitary year: There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. That happens every year,” he said.

But amid those comments, federal agencies are making preparations for the record-shattering spike, according to documents Axios obtained.

HHS said it has an immediate need for an extra 6,000 shelter beds to accommodate the minors already in their custody if they want to remain at the targeted cap of 90 percent capacity, the report said.

The department is planning to add space for more than 5,000 kids by using available military bases.

If the projected estimates hold, it will need an additional 34,000 beds in September to house the minors in order to prevent them from being held in unfit Border Patrol stations.

They could have more than 53,000 children in their custody that month.

DHS predicts roughly 500,000 to 800,000 migrants will arrive at the border as part of a family group in the fiscal year that ends in September, the Washington Post reported Sunday.

The estimates are based on the stream of crossings that have increased since Biden took office in January and are on pace to hit 50,000 this month.

The highest one-month total was recorded in May 2019 with 88,587, a year in which more than 520,000 migrants arrived in the US as part of a family group.

Large groups of family members have been appearing at the border this month in such massive numbers that they’re stressing CBP’s ability to process, transport and care for the parents and children without taking away resources from other areas.

Roy Villareal, who once worked for the Border Patrol, said the children and families represent about 40 percent of those taken into CBP custody but they eat up 60 to 70 percent of an agent’s time.

“Border security drops tremendously because of this,” he told the Washington Post.
Because of this, drug traffickers use large groups of families to tie up agents in one area while they move narcotics in another area.

The report also said that although the Biden administration claims it is expelling families to Mexico because of the pandemic, CBP figures show that only happens with about 10 to 20 percent of them.

The remainder are released in the US after being given a notice to appear at a court hearing.