AMERICANS ARE REMINDED THAT NANCY PELOSI IS NUTS – OVERNIGHT: The speaker has never been accused of being a stateswoman. But her extreme partisanship and absurdity have crossed a line. From Fox:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pointed fingers at former President Donald Trump, insinuating that he’s to blame for the crisis at the border during an appearance on ABC News’s "This Week" Sunday.
"This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us," she said. "What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border and they are working to correct that."
Biden's latest correction, announced Saturday by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, includes a government-wide effort to house migrant children with support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as numbers continue to rise.
The speaker confirmed there are nearly 600 to 700 more migrant children currently approaching the southern border which triggered the president's directive to send FEMA to facilitate the transfer of kids from border care facilities and into safe homes.
"This, again, is a transition from what was wrong before to what is right," she explained.
Pelosi said the Biden administration is attempting to uphold the standards of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program by putting in place a system that accommodates and respects it while ridding the nation of what the administration considers Trump’s "cruel" approach.
Under Biden’s open-border policies and promises to provide asylum for those seeking it, the U.S. has witnessed a massive influx of migrants at the border, causing an overflow in detention facilities. According to Daily Mail, facilities are over capacity by almost 700%.
Yet the administration and Democrats like Pelosi would rather refer to the overwhelming numbers as a "challenge" instead of a crisis.
In recent weeks, the number of unaccompanied children and family units in custody has tripled and there were more than 100,000 migrant encounters in February alone. The drastic jump directly followed Biden’s inauguration and his first executive order halting southern border wall construction.
Just last week, former President Donald Trump blasted President Biden's handling of the border crisis, saying the country is being "destroyed" by the recent surge of illegal migrants at the border.
COMMENT: President Trump is right. There was no crisis at the border as he left the White House. Trump was well on his way to secure and defended borders. It was President Biden, with policies dictated by the extreme left, who created this new crisis. And the Biden administration shows no interest in modifying those policies. They are designed to increase the number of potential Democratic votes in the United States.
Some are already predicting that the border will be Biden's Waterloo. I make no such predictions. The wayward press will cover for the president, and Republicans may garble their message. This is not the time for smug predictions. It's the time for starting a good fight,.
March 14, 2021
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