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After having ignored the latest last week in the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, NBC’s Today decided on Monday to acknowledge the continued torrent of border crossings through the summer months. But instead of merely reporting on the crossings and how Governors Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Doug Ducey (R-AZ) have bussed illegal immigrants to New York City and Washington D.C. to help share the burden, correspondent Gabe Gutierrez framed it as an issue in which “Republicans are seizing” on the crisis.
Fill-in co-host Tom Lamas explained in the setup that there were “new developments in the ongoing border crisis with a growing number of migrants being bussed to cities far from the border” that “are now asking for federal help.”