The migrant surge at the southern border, where the detention of thousands of children has threatened to spark a humanitarian crisis and undermine Democratic promises to tackle the dilemma with more compassion than former President Trump, dominated the Sunday morning political talk shows.
Democrats rallied to defend President Biden’s handling of the surge, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saying the new administration inherited a “broken system” from its predecessor.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), however, blamed President Biden for the surge.
Read The Hill’s complete coverage below.
| Pelosi says Biden administration inherited ‘a broken system at the border’ |
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| Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday said the Biden administration inherited “a broken system at the border,” as the number of unaccompanied minors crossing into the U.S. has steadily increased in recent weeks.
“What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children’s interest,” Pelosi told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
She called the unaccompanied children coming over the border a “humanitarian challenge to all of us.” |
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| Murphy: Immigration surge began under Trump |
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| “This president inherited a mess from [President] Donald Trump in terms of immigration, and he’s trying to fix it in a humane way,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said. “The surge at the border began last fall, in the last four months of Donald Trump’s presidency there was an 80 percent surge in apprehensions at the border,” he added. |
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| Pompeo: Reentering Iran deal would make Middle East ‘less secure’ |
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| “The Iranians understand strength. They understand power. They understand resolve. We demonstrated that. And when we did, the Iranians backed down,” former secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “We didn’t get all the way to where we would’ve hoped we could get in respect to getting Iran to stand down and enter an agreement that would’ve actually avoided them having a nuclear weapon, but we made an awful lot of progress.” |
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