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Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s White House press secretary, has defended the administration’s handling of the resurgent migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border, saying it remains closed for now and that families are being turned away, but that the president’s team are working on “solutions” to tackle the sharp uptick in appeals for asylum.
Donald Trump has meanwhile given yet another phone interview to Fox News, this time telling Jeanine Pirro he plans to visit the border “over the next couple of weeks” to survey the consequences of four years of “zero tolerance” policies under his leadership.
Mr Biden found himself accused of inaction on the issue on Saturday Night Live last night in a sketch in which he was portrayed as more interested in handing out stimulus cheques and allowing his German shepherd Major to savagely maul Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff.
In brighter news for the president, a large majority of Americans approve of his handling of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout and the economic recovery according to new polling.
Mr Biden is spending the weekend at his home in Delaware and attended a Palm Sunday service at St Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church.
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