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Homeland Security
secretary insists border
crisis is ‘real’
By COLLEEN LONG “Make no mistake: This
Associated Press chain of human misery is
WASHINGTON (AP) — getting worse.” Committee
Homeland Security Secre- Chairman Bennie Thomp-
tary Kirstjen Nielsen insisted son said he wanted to use
Wednesday the crisis at the the hearing in part to give
southern border is not man- Nielsen the opportunity
ufactured, as she faced to start a “serious discus-
questions from Democrats sion,” rather than echoing
for the first time since they President Donald Trump’s
took control of the House. claims of a security crisis
“We face a crisis — a real, at the border, and to say
serious and sustained crisis what she knew about the
at our borders,” she said family separations last year. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday,
at a House Homeland Se- March 6, 2019, before the House Homeland Security Committee.
curity Committee hearing. Continued on Page 3 Associated Press
