'It’s an extraordinarily challenging situation.' The acting heads of two U.S. immigration agencies push back against criticism from Democrats.
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials defended the Trump administration’s immigration policies on several fronts, pushing back forcefully against criticism of conditions at migrant detention facilities and planned deportation raids that have stirred controversy.
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Sunday that the federal government was overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of people who have been arrested crossing the southern border this year.
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