Pelosi describes as “humanitarian crisis” children arriving on the border between the United States and Mexico

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said Sunday that the influx of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was a “humanitarian crisis” and the result of the former president’s policy. Donald Trump.

Pelosi’s statements came a day after National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin protecting and relocating children arriving at the southern border.

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

The administration of President Joe Biden has stopped saying that the border situation is a crisis.

In 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 additional funds toward building a wall.

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

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

Biden campaigned to wholesale reverse Trump’s immigration policies, but a large number of children in Customs and Border Protection custody has posed a challenge to the nascent administration.

Last week, more than 3,700 children were in CBP custody, a record number reported on CNN, with about 450 detainees each day. Many of these children are being held in prison-like facilities, according to the medium.

The Trump administration faced an examination for the treatment of children who tried to cross the United States through Mexico.

Republicans have tried to portray Democrats as weak on immigration. On Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, is expected to travel with a Republican delegation to the southern border, Axios reported.

McCarthy wrote a letter to Biden on March 5 saying he was “forced to express great concern about the way your administration is dealing with this crisis” and added that he had “hope to be able to work together to resolve it.” .

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

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