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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security Chief, Cites 'Humanitarian Catastrophe' on Southern Border
WASHINGTON Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, on Wednesday implored Congress to confront what she called a humanitarian catastrophe on the southern border by supporting President Trumps call for a border wall and changing laws to crack down on asylum-seekers and illegal border-crossers.
In her first congressional appearance since Democrats took control of the House, Ms. Nielsen was defiant in the face of criticism of the administration for its treatment of migrant families at the border, especially its decision last summer to separate children from their parents.
Our capacity is already severely strained, but these increases will overwhelm the system entirely, Ms. Nielsen told members of the House Homeland Security Committee. This is not a manufactured crisis. This is truly an emergency.
Democrats demanded that Ms. Nielsen address the chaos that followed the family separation decision, the deaths of migrant children in federal custody and Mr. Trumps claim of a national emergency at the border that he has said requires construction of a border wall.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kirstjen-nielsen-homeland-security-chief-cites-humanitarian-catastrophe-on-southern-border/ar-BBUrfd7
So your solution is to lock everyone out and hope the problem goes away.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's because your department abandoned the previous approach in favor of locking up everyone who comes across the border seeking asylum, in direct opposition to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which the U.S. has signed onto. You created this crisis, and now you want someone else to clean it up.
TygrBright
(20,758 posts)Kirstjen Nielsen wouldn't recognize "humanity" if it was half an inch from her nose.
Dayum, what a tool.
disgustedly,
Bright
moondust
(19,972 posts)Chris Cuomo was sounding the alarm over HUGE new numbers of immigrants at the southern border. I don't know where he got the numbers but it sounded suspicious to me. Maybe he was helping to lay the groundwork for her to ring the alarm bells today. Cuomo has a lot of batshit crazy RWNJs on and he often downplays the Mueller investigation. Dump knows all about cooking government statistics as he accused the Obama admin of cooking the job numbers. It wouldn't surprise me if the Dump admin has been cooking up some phony numbers to justify building a wall.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)What a bunch of BS from this whatever ...They spent time crossing into Mexico (Algodones) Sat and Sunday..they ate there, they shopped..they checked out the Dental Facility..brought brochures back..the dentists, for the most part are American trained...meds you say?? antibiotics, of course, alcohol, of course....the people of Mexico couldn't have been nicer...
This disgusting admin, manufactured crisis, is a charade..and people are getting hurt.....