Pelosi says the surge in unaccompanied children arriving at southern border is a crisis. Joe Biden’s administration has stopped short of using that word.
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Sunday said that the influx of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was a “humanitarian crisis” and the result of the policies of former President Donald Trump.
- Pelosi’s remarks came one day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin sheltering and transferring children who arrive at the southern border.
- President Joe Biden’s administration has stopped short of calling the situation on the border a crisis.
Source: Pelosi calls children arriving at U.S.-Mexico border a ‘humanitarian crisis’