US Republicans hit Biden on immigration amid new border surge

Increase in children crossing the US-Mexico border poses challenge to new US president as FEMA is called in to help.

US Republicans are seizing on a surge in the number of children trying to enter the United States through the southwest border with Mexico to attack the Biden administration as a new crisis develops in US border facilities. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the US House of Representatives, on Monday led a delegation of Republican members of Congress to the US border with Mexico. “The security of our nation and our border is first and foremost the responsibility of our president,” McCarthy said at a news conference near El Paso, Texas, pointing to an increase in border crossings since President Joe Biden was elected.