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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,  said that the influx of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was a “humanitarian crisis.” 

Pelosi’s remarks came one day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin sheltering and transferring children who arrive at the southern border.

“The Biden administration is trying to fix the broken system that was left to them. “The Biden administration will have a system, based on doing the best possible job, understanding this is a humanitarian crisis.”

President Joe Biden’s administration has stopped short of calling the situation on the border a crisis.

On his first day in office, Biden terminated Trump’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, which the former president had used as a legal mechanism to divert extra funds toward the construction of a wall.

During a press briefing at the White House earlier this month, Mayorkas told reporters that he did not believe the situation on the border was a crisis.

“The answer is no,” the DHS secretary said. “I think there is a challenge at the border that we are managing, and we have our resources dedicated to managing it.”

Biden campaigned on a wholesale reversal of Trump’s hardline immigration policies, but a swelling number of children in Customs and Border Protection custody has posed a challenge for the nascent administration.

More than 3,700 children were in CBP custody as of last week, CNN reported, a record number, with about 450 being apprehended every day. Many of those children are being held in facilities that resemble jails, according to the outlet.

 Well, fix it then. Just a thought.