White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki politely pushed back against The View’s Meghan McCain on Thursday over accusations of “hypocrisy” surrounding the Biden administration’s use of detention facilities to house migrant children, or as she put it, putting “kids in cages.” The current situation is “absolutely not” the same as “kids in cages,” Psaki fired back.
As the Daily Beast notes, earlier this week, it was reported “that the Biden administration had opened its first migrant child facility at the border.
The temporary facility, which had been shuttered under the Trump administration following backlash over the controversial zero-tolerance policy of separating migrant children from parents, will be used to hold up to 700 children aged 13