Bring Back Trump Border Policies, Democrat Congresswoman Says

A freshman Democrat congresswoman from Washington State warned that the Biden administration has no “operational control” of the southern border and called on Trump-era policies to be brought back to counter the illegal immigrant crisis. “It’s been one of the fundamental mistakes around immigration, is to debate whether or not an immigration policy is, you know, motivated by racial animus,” Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) said in an April 29 interview with NPR. “A lot of people in rural and working-class communities like mine, we come from communities that have been hollowed out by fentanyl, and so we’re watching our cousins, our neighbors, our coworkers overdose and die, and we are demanding operational control of the southern border....