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Biden describes border surge as a ‘crisis’ as he defends refugee moves
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President Biden on Saturday described the situation at the border as a “crisis” for the first time, as he defended his administration’s walkback on refugee policy a day earlier.
Biden’s administration has until now refused to call the dramatic spike in migrant numbers, which saw 172,000 migrant encounters in March alone, a "crisis." Instead, it has referred to it as a "challenge" and blamed it on the Trump administration’s dismantling of asylum paths. "The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock seven days a week to ensure that we do not have a crisis at the border -- that we manage the challenge, as acute as the challenge is," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last month.More Related News