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The U.S. is facing an unprecedented influx of migrants on the southwest border with Mexico. While tens of thousands have been pushed back, thousands of families with minors and unaccompanied minors are being detained in various centers along the border.
Joe Biden, the presidential candidate, had vowed to make sweeping reforms to the US immigration policy to facilitate better treatment of migrants, but he clearly didn’t expect the problem to be so big within a few months of him becoming the President.
The Republican party has been vehemently blaming President Biden for the surge and the White House has been avoiding the word “crisis” to describe the situation. It has preferred to call it a “challenge” or a “big problem.”
When the White House was pressed on the issue a few weeks back, White House Press Secretary Jen Pssurge,aki told reporters, “I don’t think we need to meet your bar of what we need to call it.”
Looking at the reluctance of the Biden administration to call it a “crisis,” the Republican party is rubbing it in. For instance, Kevin McCarthy, the House of Representatives minority leader, recently used the word repeatedly speaking to reporters when he said, “I came down here because I heard of the crisis. It’s more than a crisis. This is a human heartbreak...This crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration.”
Even the White House is finding it difficult to avoid calling it a “crisis.” Psaki, during a press briefing on Thursday, while answering a question on linking the U.S. plans to ship vaccine to Mexico and the problem on the border, she said that the U.S. and Mexico “would be partners in dealing with the crisis on the border.”
Showing that it was a clear slip, the spokesperson soon reverted to “challenges” when it was pointed to her she had used the term “crisis.”
Read more:
How the “challenge: caught Biden’s administration off guard:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/20/politics/immigration-border-crisis-biden-administration/index.html
Biden’s big problem
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56446814