The statement followed a a letter to the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, in which Nielsen requested emergency funding for border security and specific powers to detain asylum-seeking family units for longer than currently allowed.
"In her letter to Congress, the Secretary continues to confuse and mislead on the situation at the border and how we got to this point. President Trump's border security and immigration policies have failed, and the Administration deserves much of the blame for making the difficult situation at the border worse," said House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. in a statement Friday.
"The Department of Homeland Security policies have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis at the border, and now Secretary Nielsen has put forth a list of proposals that will continue to hurt asylum seekers and deepen the crisis," added Castro in a statement.
Neither side denies a crisis exists amid large numbers of asylum seekers heading to the border.
There is a sharp disagreement over how the situation on the border reached a tipping point.
The Trump administration attributes the crisis to sheer numbers - apprehensions of family units outside ports of entry at the border spiked in February, forcing the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection to redirect resources to care for the migrant families.
The caravans though have made clear the problems with a border security force built to catch surreptitious border crossers rather than deal with large groups of asylum-seeking families.
https://thehill.com/latino/436545-dems-hammer-nielsen-over-border-crisis
"In her letter to Congress, the Secretary continues to confuse and mislead on the situation at the border and how we got to this point. President Trump's border security and immigration policies have failed, and the Administration deserves much of the blame for making the difficult situation at the border worse," said House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. in a statement Friday.
"The Department of Homeland Security policies have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis at the border, and now Secretary Nielsen has put forth a list of proposals that will continue to hurt asylum seekers and deepen the crisis," added Castro in a statement.
Neither side denies a crisis exists amid large numbers of asylum seekers heading to the border.
There is a sharp disagreement over how the situation on the border reached a tipping point.
The Trump administration attributes the crisis to sheer numbers - apprehensions of family units outside ports of entry at the border spiked in February, forcing the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection to redirect resources to care for the migrant families.
The caravans though have made clear the problems with a border security force built to catch surreptitious border crossers rather than deal with large groups of asylum-seeking families.
https://thehill.com/latino/436545-dems-hammer-nielsen-over-border-crisis
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