House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Friday to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that to end the migrant crisis at America’s southern border, she and other Democrats must fund the wall.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez responded to a question from a reporter on whether the New York progressive should apologize for her remarks comparing American detention centers for illegal immigration and asylum seekers to concentration camps by attacking McCarthy.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said McCarthy should apologize for separating migrant children from their families and alleged “widespread human rights abuses.”
“And until he stops supporting the absolute dehumanizing conditions on the border I will not apologize for holding him to account,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
Rep. McCarthy noted that Ocasio-Cortez and her Democrat majority blocked funding for increased border security and humanitarian relief over 17 times and that she can end the migrant crisis by funding the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and build the wall.
McCarthy said, “You and other Democrats have blocked funding 17 times for humanitarian aid at the border. Want to end the crisis? Fund @HHSGov and #BuildTheWall.”
Republicans continue to fight for increased funding for humanitarian and border relief to address the migrant crisis. Despite many Democrats’ resistance to border security funding, Congressman Jody Hice (R-GA) told Breitbart News that he believes that Democrats have increasingly started to admit that there is a crisis at the border.
“Democrats cannot hide from the truth, and I believe that as we are beginning to win this battle, and the beginning point is the humanitarian side of the crisis— the next part is going to be obvious: we got to stop these people from crossing the border and drugs coming across the border,” Hice said.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.