'Either you're lying to this committee or you don't know what's happening at the border.' Democratic Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán slams Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen for her answer about asylum seekers
Nielsen defended the administration's"zero tolerance" policy, which called for the criminal prosecution of adults crossing the border illegally and, as a result, the separation of families. Democratic lawmakers grilled the secretary over the policy, asking her when she knew about it and whether it was intended to deter migrants from approaching the southern border.
"Is the President misleading the American people? Is he accurate in what he is saying? It's the largest amount of detentions -- apprehensions at the border?" said Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island."In some categories we have had record-breaking apprehensions," Nielsen said.Nielsen described an overwhelmed system at the border as a result of a surge of migrants.
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