Homeland Security secretary asks for new authority to send young migrants back home

Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has asked for immediate action from Congress to address a “dire situation” at the border, including new authority to immediately deport unaccompanied minors back to their home countries. “Now we face a system-wide meltdown,” Nielsen wrote in a letter obtained by ABC …

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