McCarthy requests meeting with Biden on immigration, Psaki says president would welcome dialogue
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., requested a meeting with President Biden Friday to talk about the surge in migrants at the southern border.
The Department of Homeland Security projects that 117,000 children will arrive at the border unaccompanied this year.
McCarthy pointed out that such a number would be a marked increase from the next-highest total of unaccompanied children arriving per year — 76,020 in 2019, according to Customs and Border Patrol.
McCarthy also pointed to a 113% increase in unaccompanied children arriving and a 157% increase in border apprehensions overall.
"I feel compelled to express great concern with the manner in which your administration is approaching this crisis, but with hope that we can work together to solve it," he wrote.
Asked if Biden would take a meeting with the House GOP leader, press secretary Jen Psaki that the president was focused on "digging out of the dismantled, inhumane immigration approach of the last administration" with a sweeping immigration reform bill. Still, she said he would "welcome the desire to engage on that."
The California Republican pointed to DHS Secretary Alex Mayorkas’ words to Latin American migrants.
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