Pelosi calls children arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico a ‘humanitarian crisis’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Said on Sunday that the flow of unaccompanied children arriving at the border between the United States and Mexico was a “humanitarian crisis” and the result of the policies of former President Donald Trump.

Pelosi’s comment came a day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin sheltering and transferring children arriving at the southern border.

“The Biden government is trying to fix the broken system that was left to them by the Trump administration,” Pelosi told reporters on Sunday. “The Biden government will have a system based on doing the best job possible, understanding that this is a humanitarian crisis.”

President Joe Biden’s administration hardly called the situation on the border of crisis.

On his first day in office, Biden ended Trump’s declaration of an “emergency” on the southern border, which the former president had used as a legal mechanism to divert extra funds for the construction of a wall.

During a press conference at the White House earlier this month, Mayorkas told reporters that he did not believe the situation at the border was a crisis.

“The answer is no,” said the DHS secretary. “I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.”

Biden campaigned for a complete reversal of Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, but an increasing number of children in custody of Customs and Border Protection posed a challenge to the nascent administration.

More than 3,700 children were in custody of CBP last week, CNN reported, a record number, with about 450 seized every day. Many of these children are being held in jail-like facilities, according to the agency.

The Trump administration was examined for the treatment of children who tried to enter the United States via Mexico.

Republicans tried to portray Democrats as weak in immigration. On Monday, minority leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Is due to travel with a delegation of Republicans to the southern border, reported Axios.

McCarthy wrote a letter to Biden on March 5 in which he said he felt “compelled to express great concern about the way his government is addressing this crisis” and added that he had “hope that we can work together to resolve it”.

Earlier on Sunday, Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week” program that the increase in unaccompanied children arriving at the border was “a humanitarian challenge for all of us”.

“What the government has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct it in the interests of the children,” said Pelosi.