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Homeland Security head spars with Congress over border surge

by Ben FoxNomaan Merchant
| March 19, 2021 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s head of Homeland Security sparred Wednesday with members of Congress over the surge of migrants at the Southwest border, refusing to concede the situation was a crisis or even much different from what the two previous administrations faced.

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