Biden Admits There’s a Border ‘Crisis,’ Defends His Refugee Flip-Flop

In noting that his administration was incapable of handling two major issues at once, President 👤Joe Biden on Saturday described the situation at the border as a “crisis” for the first time.

Biden made the comment in the context of explaining why his administration first said it would not raise the limit on refugees allowed into the country and then flip-flopped once Democratic critics howled at what appeared to be a broken promise.

Biden had said he would raise the Trump administration limit of 15,000 refugees to 62,500 in the current fiscal year and 125,000 in the next fiscal year, which begins in October. Then on Friday, he signed a document keeping to the 15,000 figure before announcing the number would be higher after progressive critics were outraged.

“We’re going to increase the number ,” Biden said, before explaining how government works, according to Fox News.

“The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people. We couldn’t do two things at once. But now we are going to increase the number.”

The comment was the first time Biden referred to the chaotic flood of illegal immigrants that has overcrowded border facilities as a crisis, and the messaging from his administration had voided the word.

“The men and women of the Department of Homeland Security are working around the clock seven days a week to ensure that we do not have a crisis at the border — that we manage the challenge, as acute as the challenge is,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last month, for example.