Jean-Pierre: President Biden Took the Border Crisis ‘Very Seriously on Day One’

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JEAN-PIERRE: “The president put forth a comprehensive immigration plan because he believed that the system is broken. The immigration system is broken and it's been broken for decades. Now we are having, we believe, a very productive conversation in Congress with senators on how do we move forward in a bipartisan agreement to deal with the border security. That is important. Now, what we hope is that when Congress gets back we'll be able to act and get these things moving forward so we can deal with this issue. We've been in touch with some of those mayors that you talked about -- governors in northern -- in the northern part of the country on dealing with the issue that they're dealing with on the ground. And we have provided resources to them and we're going to continue to have those conversations. But again, Congress needs to act. The president took this very seriously on day one.”