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Chuck Schumer Blames Trump Administration for Overcrowding at Border

posted onJuly 21, 2019
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Article snippet: @SenateDems and I pushed Border Patrol leadership hard,” Schumer tweeted Friday. “Overcrowding. Migrants without the help they need. It doesn’t have to be this way. These are decisions from the top of the Trump admin.” President Trump delivered a national address on border security in January, asking Congress to reopen the government by agreeing to $5 billion for wall funding. Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded via an address to the nation and accused the president of manufacturing a crisis. “Most presidents have used Oval Office addresses for noble purposes,” Schumer stated. “This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration.” In the last few months, Democrat leadership has modified its position, particularly after freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) began comparing migrant shelters to “concentration camps.” In May, Pelosi declared that Democrats “never” denied that there was a crisis, despite months of accusing the Trump administration of making the entire situation up. “Well, let me just say this. We have never not said that there was a crisis — there is a humanitarian crisis at the border, and some of it provoked by the actions taken by the administration,” Pelosi told reporters during her weekly press conference in May. “What is happening at the border is tragic and we hope to address some of that in the disaster supplemental,... Link to the full article to read more

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