Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives from D-California, expressed concern about the rising number of immigrant children trying to cross the US-Mexico border on Sunday, describing it as a crisis.
“This is a humanitarian challenge for all of us this week,” the speaker told ABC News. Pelosi said President Joe Biden “inherited a broken system at the border” and that his administration “is working to fix this for the benefit of the children”.
“This is a humanitarian crisis,” the Biden administration avoided using labels, he told reporters at the end of the interview.
The speaker’s words came as thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children awaiting processing were being held in the United States by the US Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Department of Homeland Security.
Children initially fleeing the instability of their homeland in Central America came as a big test of Biden’s administration’s promise to adopt “more humane” approaches to indifferent immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States.
A situation White House Press Minister Jane Sosaki calls “heartbreaking” currently holds 3,000 children at the border. According to CNN, the number of unaccompanied children who come to the border every day has risen to 435, about 340 more than the previous average.
To manage the growth of newcomers, the Biden administration called on the federal emergency management agency to provide logistical support and assistance to the situation.
“I am very pleased that the president sent FEMA to the border to help children, as a temporary measure,” Pelosi said. Pelosi added that at the end of the process, the children were taken to “places” where they were looked after. “”
Currently, the lion’s share of immigrants is trying to cross the border. When unmarried immigrant children were seen entering the country, the administration decided to provide shelter and protection to the youth. The move is a reversal of Trump-era policy and allows minors to wait in Mexico despite their right to protection under federal law.
The White House says it has taken a more “more humane” approach to the situation than the Trump administration has adopted, attacking critics of the aggressive deportation and detention strategy unnecessarily brutally, especially the “zero tolerance” policy that leaves no room. For adults traveling with asylum seekers or minors.
Still, in the current wave of immigrants, large numbers of children are detained in facilities run by customs and border guard, which do not have the proper equipment for their hosts. Health and human services facilities performing this function are currently unaffordable, and immigrant children are arrested faster than HHS, which can leave them to their parents or sponsors.
“I am grateful for the outstanding talent and responsiveness of the FEMA team,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorcas said on Saturday evening. Said. “I am incredibly proud of Border Patrol officers who work almost hours to temporarily care for children in our situation in difficult situations. Yet, as I have said over and over again, there is no Border Patrol facility. A child.”
“Our aim is to place unaccompanied minors in HHS as soon as possible, in accordance with legal requirements and in the best interests of the children,” said the Secretary. Said.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the opening of additional home facilities for immigrant children at the border “Okay, never okay, never okay”.
Republicans also took the issue as an opportunity to criticize Biden’s broader immigration policy. House of Representatives Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, is taking a delegation of GOP lawmakers to the border to investigate the situation.
“I’m deeply concerned about how your administration is handling this crisis, but I hope we can work together to solve it,” McCarthy wrote in a letter to Biden.
The debate about the current level of juvenile delinquency is also divisive among Washington lawyers. A similar increase in immigrants trying to cross the border occurred under President Barack Obama in 2014 and under President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019.
Democrats argue that the current sharp arguments and fruitful delays in the processing are the result of the Trump administration’s policies, while Republicans argue that the situation is something Biden has created himself.
You’re Bill Bill Cassidy, R-La. Fox News said on Sunday that the current uprising was “completely” Biden’s fault. “You can’t help but notice that management has changed and there is an upswing,” the Senator said.
“The flow of humanity has never stopped reaching our front door,” D-Texas Representative Veronica Escobar said in an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“The Donald Trump administration did not stop them, and what we see today is the result of breaking the system every four years to resolve it with humanity and compassion,” the representative said.
Why he and other Democrats decided to call the 2019 situation a crisis, but after pressure, not the current influx of immigrants, Escobar argued that the current use of the term crisis is “his response to the government that created the inhumane situation.” “Our family and young children were sleeping at three-digit temperatures on the rocks outside. It was really a humanitarian crisis, ”she said.
He described the current situation at the border as “a major challenge” and “unacceptable”.
The White House recently proposed an immigration reform package that will oversee existing regulations, including, among other provisions, granting citizenship to unregistered immigrants, changing legal immigration requirements, and modernizing border security with new technology.
And House Democrats plans to move forward this week with two separate immigration bills different from Biden’s plan: the American Dream and Promise Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
