Hearing was scheduled as the administration’s plan to handle asylum seekers led to a...
Ana Maria Alvarado and her 9-year-old son Kevin Alexander Avila, from El Salvador, wait with a group who may qualify for a humanitarian exception to enter the U.S., at at the border crossing between Reynosa, Mexico and Hidalgo, Texas, May 1, 2022. At that time, the United States had just started to allow people to apply for asylum under a new process that the secretary of homeland security hoped could help fix the current 'very broken' system.
"It has become clear that Republicans planned to politicize this event from the start," said U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee."Instead of a fact-finding mission to develop better border security and immigration policies, Republicans are traveling to the border to attack the administration and try to score political points with their extreme rhetoric — despite having voted against the resources border personnel need.
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