Biden says admin trying to 'figure out' why illegal immigrants leave their countries

President Biden said during a meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) on Monday that his administration is combating the border crisis by working to understand why migrants leave their home countries for the U.S. "in the first place."

"I think one of the fundamental things we've got to do in addition to some of the changes we'll make, which we won’t get into it today, is that if we figure out why they're leaving in the first place," the president continued. "It's not like people sit around and say, in Guadalajara, ‘I got a great idea, let's sell everything we have, give it to a coyote, take us across the border, leave us in the desert in a country doesn't want us. We don't speak the language. Won't that be fun?’