https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/politics/biden-border-crisis-unaccompanied-minors/index.html

 (CNN)The White House on Monday backtracked after President Joe Biden over the weekend described the influx of migrant children on the country's southern border as a "crisis," in what appeared to be a notable shift in language.

The President's use of the "crisis" label doesn't represent the administration's official position, the White House said Monday in regard to a term that top administration officials have refused to say as the numbers of migrants surged.

Biden spoke to reporters after a round of golf at the Wilmington Country Club on Saturday and was asked about the cap on refugees admitted to the US in the current fiscal year.

"We're gonna increase the numbers. The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people and we couldn't do two things at once. And now we're going to increase the numbers," Biden said.

On Monday, the White House sought to downplay those words, claiming Biden was referring to the conditions in Northern Triangle countries that migrants are coming from and not the surge of migrant children in US custody.

"No, there is no change in position. Children coming to our border seeking refuge from violence, economic hardships and other dire circumstances is not a crisis," a White House official told CNN.

The official said that Biden "was referring to the crisis in Central America -- the dire circumstances so many are fleeing from. He was not referring to the Federal Government's response."

That official added, "The Federal Government's response and process has been laser focused on finding solutions that allow us to address these root causes, expand capacity space and quickly transfer children to relatives. We remain focused on getting children out of CBP facilities, into proper facilities, and ultimately united with relatives or sponsors who are safe and have been vetted."

White House press secretary Jen Psaki made the same distinction later on Monday afternoon.

"The President does not feel that children coming to our border seeking refuge from violence, economic hardships, and other dire circumstances is a crisis. He does feel that the crisis in Central America -- the dire circumstances that many are fleeing from -- that that is a situation we need to spend our time or effort on and we need to address it if we're going to prevent more of an influx of migrants from coming in years to come," Psaki said at the press briefing Monday.

Biden's use of the word crisis to describe the situation at the border came after Psaki, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Roberta Jacobson, the senior administration overseeing the border, all declined to label it as such throughout the month of March. It was something Psaki and others were pressed on by reporters on at least nine occasions. 

The number of migrants on the southern border was steadily increasing in the first weeks of the Biden administration, with more than 100,000 migrants encountered on the US-Mexico border in February, which jumped to more than 172,000 in March."

metmike: They stated: Children coming to our border seeking refuge from violence, economic hardships and other dire circumstances is not a crisis," a White House official told CNN.

There you have it. With their new definition, this can NEVER be a crisis as viewed by the Biden administration. 

But this makes sense, using the effective political strategy for supporting agenda in todays world. Their definition of a climate crisis for instance is of the exact same atmosphere that based on my 39 years of observations, with all the empirical data and expert analysis going back to all history....... is  a climate optimum. 

You just make up the facts to allow you to define whatever you want. With the climate, you take extreme weather that has always happened and totally unrealistic, busted (proven wrong) simulations of the atmosphere going out 100 years.........to call the current climate optimum...........a climate crisis.

With the REAL crisis on the southern border, you tell everyone, there are alot of children, so it can't be a REAL crisis and pretend that that the crisis is in all the countries of the world that don't have it as good as the US and that you are working on fixing that. 

Good thing that Central America will eventually run out of people and that its almost impossible for poor people in other continents to get here. I am 100% for doing much, much more to help the less fortunate and the countries they live in, including LEGALLY making more room for a small % of them here. But the current situation is the WRONG way to do it for our country and especially for the ones being exploited and harmed in the risky process of getting here. ..which is fueling a massive billion dollar crime industry right now.