{"id":318314,"date":"2021-03-26T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=318314"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:30:43","slug":"arizona-dem-we-currently-dont-have-a-plan-on-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-dem-we-currently-dont-have-a-plan-on-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Dem: \u2018We Currently Don\u2019t Have a Plan\u2019 on Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-dem-we-currently-dont-have-a-plan-on-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=318314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1231359294_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Arizona senator Mark Kelly said that &#8220;we currently don&#8217;t have a plan&#8221; on the border crisis, a tacit swipe at the Biden administration from a swing-state Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly addressed the &#8220;tragic&#8221; conditions at migrant processing centers across the southern border, where hundreds of unaccompanied children are packed into plastic &#8220;pods.&#8221; Unlike top Biden administration officials, the Democratic senator called the border surge a &#8220;crisis&#8221; that the federal government is not currently prepared to address.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Democrats<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tragic situation, it&#8217;s a challenging one, it&#8217;s a crisis,&#8221; Kelly said during a Thursday interview with Fox&#8217;s Phoenix affiliate. &#8220;And it&#8217;s up to the federal government to provide the resources and the border security we need, and any plan. We currently don&#8217;t have a plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly toured a portion of Arizona&#8217;s southern border in January. Weeks later, the Democrat stressed the need to &#8220;provide enough resources&#8221; to ensure that &#8220;the border is secure and that migrants are treated fairly and humanely&#8221; in a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Unlike most in his party, Kelly regularly refers to the swell in migrants as a &#8220;crisis&#8221;\u2014a label that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have so far rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Biden addressed the border situation during his Thursday press conference. He portrayed the surge as normal and cyclical, contending that the trend occurs &#8220;every single solitary year.&#8221; Just days ago, however, Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2021\/03\/16\/statement-homeland-security-secretary-alejandro-n-mayorkas-regarding-situation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> that the United States is &#8220;on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.&#8221; Nearly 5,000 migrant children were in U.S. custody as of March 23, according to government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has also faced bipartisan criticism over his administration&#8217;s lack of media access at southern border facilities. Government officials for weeks rebuffed requests from reporters to tour the overcrowded detention centers. Biden allowed one news camera into a Carrizo Springs, Texas, shelter on Wednesday, but the facility offers bunk beds and educational services as opposed to pods and silver film blankets. One day later, the president committed to &#8220;transparency&#8221; at the border but said that reporters would only be allowed to tour the congested facilities once he&#8217;s &#8220;in a position to implement what we&#8217;re doing right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/after-pledging-to-decriminalize-illegal-border-crossings-harris-will-lead-border-crisis-response\/\">called on Harris<\/a> to lead the administration&#8217;s response to the border crisis Wednesday. The vice president has emphasized the need to give Americans a &#8220;closeup look&#8221; at border facilities in the past. She <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/flashback-kamala-stressed-importance-of-free-press-at-border-during-trump-admin\/\">thanked<\/a> the &#8220;free and independent press&#8221; for showing the public &#8220;what&#8217;s really happening&#8221; at the border &#8220;as opposed to the rhetoric coming out of&#8221; the Trump administration in 2018. Harris has yet to address the current lack of media access at southern border facilities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona senator Mark Kelly said that &#8220;we currently don&#8217;t have a plan&#8221; on the border crisis, a tacit swipe at the Biden administration from a swing-state Democrat. 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