Biden is boxed in on immigration as migrant children crisis continues
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President Joe Biden is facing growing political tension, including from within his own party, over his administration's strategy on the US-Mexico border as officials race to address the number of children crossing the border alone.
The politics of the border are front and center this week, with a visit from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Democrat, to the border Monday to be followed by House votes on two immigration bills that address immigrants who were brought to the US as children illegally and undocumented farmworkers. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will also testify on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The border surge Biden faces comes as the politics of immigration have only grown more polarized and contentious. Republicans -- many of whom followed in the footsteps of former President Donald Trump -- are quick to hold up the crisis as a failure in leadership by Biden, an example of what unfolds when Democrats take control of the executive branch and abandon plans to expand Trump's border wall.More Related News