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Homeland Security head rejects GOP claims of border 'crisis'

by Ben FoxNomaan Merchant
| March 17, 2021 8:30 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Department of Homeland Security pushed back Wednesday against Republican criticism of the Biden administration's border policies, refusing to say that the surge of migrant children entering the United States is a “crisis.”

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