
Border state Democrat knocks Biden administration plans to mitigate expected migrant surge
CNN
A US-Mexico border state Democrat joined a chorus of Republican lawmakers in knocking the Biden administration's plan to mitigate a potential surge of migrants at the southern border when a Trump-era pandemic restriction lifts.
"Putting more pressure on a system that can handle it carries a significant risk of creating a full scale humanitarian crisis on American soil for which the White House and your department will be solely responsible. No person who cares about migrants should want that," Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona told Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a House panel hearing. "It's clear to me that the federal government is not prepared. Not even close."
Stanton acknowledged that migration issues are not unique to the United States and called the Trump administration's approach "inhumane, ineffective, and harmed the federal government's long term ability to process migrants through the system."