The word the Biden administration won't use when it comes to the border? 'Crisis'

The Biden administration is facing what it admits is an "overwhelming" number of migrants at the southern border, while scrambling to construct new facilities to hold child migrants -- but it is doggedly refusing to describe the situation as a "crisis."

While numbers have been increasing at the border for months, particularly of unaccompanied children (UACs) and family units, they have spiked since President Biden took office. The number of UACs in custody has tripled in recent weeks, while there were more than 100,000 migrant encounters in February. Critics have blamed the dramatic liberalizing of immigration policy and rollback of Trump-era border protections for encouraging the flow, and removing the tools that allow migrants to be kept out or returned to their home countries.