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Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, has defend the administration’s handling of the resurgent migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, saying it remains closed for now and that families are being turned away but that the president’s team are working on “solutions” to tackle the sharp uptick in appeals for asylum.
Donald Trump has meanwhile given yet another phone interview to Fox News, this time telling Jeanine Pirro he plans to visit the border “over the next couple of weeks” to survey the consequences of four years of “zero tolerance” policies under his leadership.
Mr Biden found himself accused of inaction on the issue on Saturday Night Live last night in a sketch in which he was portrayed as more interested in handing out stimulus cheques and allowing his German shepherd Major to savagely maul Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff.
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Border crisis pictures show reality for migrants
While Jen Psaki was appealing for calm on Fox earlier and insisting the administration is doing all it can, the latest night shots of families attempting illegal crossings of the Rio Grande captured by AFP photographer Ed Jones bring home the reality of the ordeal being experienced by parents and their young children as they risk everything in search of a better life in the US.
Joe Sommerlad28 March 2021 16:15
Reverend Warnock: ‘We will not be worn down’ in fight for voting rights
Over on CNN’s State of the Union, the new Georgia senator elected in January’s runoff elections alongside fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff, told Dana Bash that the battle against Peach State Republicans’ restrictive new laws were only just getting started.
“We cannot allow politicians to silence the people,” he said.
Joe Sommerlad28 March 2021 15:55
Lindsey Graham: ‘Every time a Republican does anything, we’re a racist’
Psaki is followed on Wallace’s show by the aforementioned Senator Graham, who says that white conservatives are the real victims here, that certain aspects of Georgia’s voting laws don’t make sense and that, should an apocalyptic natural disaster strike South Carolina, he’ll shoot any looters who comes near his house with his trusty AR-15.
Joe Sommerlad28 March 2021 15:30
White House press secretary defends handling of migrants at US-Mexico
Jen Psaki has been talking to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday and had this to say on the border (also denying conservative claims the administration was trying to keep the media at bay) before making an appeal for Republican co-operation on voting rights following the outcry over new restrictions in Georgia.
On the latter subject, Chuck Todd’s scorching introduction to this…
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