Psaki Still Won’t Say that There Is a Border Crisis: ‘It Doesn’t Matter What You Call It’

‘It is an enormous challenge’

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PSAKI: "Well, I think what Ambassador Jacobson and Secretary Mayorkas were conveying and what I’ve conveyed is it doesn’t matter what you call it. It is an enormous challenge. It is something that is front and center for the President. As I noted yesterday, he had what is a regular meeting, but he had a briefing yesterday on the trip to the border, and there are a number of — while there are no final policy decisions, there are a variety of of actions under consideration, including identifying and assessing other licensed facilities that can help add safe capacity for these children, re-launching, as we talked about over the last couple of days, the Central American Minors Program, accelerating the unification of children with vetted families — family and sponsors, steps like embedding HHS and ORR in the earlier parts of the process.” 

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