Kevin McCarthy Asks Biden for Immigration Meeting as Administration Officials Secretly Travel to Southern BorderWendell Husebo 5 Mar 2021
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Friday requested a meeting with President Biden to talk about the surge in migrants at the southern border.
The request comes as Biden sis ecretly sending members of his team “to travel to the border region in order to provide a full briefing to him on the government response to the influx of unaccompanied minors and an assessment of additional steps that can be taken to ensure the safety and care of these children,†White House spokesperson Vedant Patel said.
The Department of Homeland Security projects that 117,000 children and teenagers will arrive at the border unaccompanied this year. McCarthy pointed out that such a number would be a marked increase from the next-highest total of unaccompanied children arriving per year — 76,020 in 2019, according to Customs and Border Patrol.
McCarthy also pointed to a 113 percent increase in unaccompanied children and teenagers arriving and a 157 percent increase in border apprehensions overall.
“I feel compelled to express great concern with the manner in which your administration is approaching this crisis, but with hope that we can work together to solve it,†he wrote.
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