Commentary: Rachel Pak - Stop calling it a 'border crisis'

Over the past several weeks, Customs and Border Protection has reported a rise in the number of migrant children seeking refuge in the United States.

With the increase, the federal government’s capacity to process and shelter migrant children has been stretched, leading to children being housed in overcrowded and inhumane CBP facilities for extended periods of time.

Federal officials and some media have called what’s happening at the border a “crisis” or a “surge”— harmful rhetoric that has long been used to dehumanize immigrants and people approaching the southern border.

This language of crisis is a distraction — and it undermines common sense policy solutions that can secure justice and safety for everyone in our country, including immigrant survivors fleeing gender-based violence.

Ted Harvey: Biden attacks 2nd Amendment – here's what the president's gun grab is really all about

In his latest show of bipartisan "unity," President Biden is once again overstepping his executive authority. As if the dozens of executive orders signed in his administration’s early days weren’t enough, gun control is now on the president’s mind.

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