Texas Dem Calls for More Action on Border

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, urged the State Department on Sunday to have a "far more direct engagement" to the surge of migrants entering the United States from the U.S.-Mexico border.

"The federal government under Congress' direction has addressed immigration as a border only issue," Escobar said, according to a report from The Hill. "We really have to kind of zoom out and recognize this is a Western Hemispheric refugee crisis of historic proportions, impacting all of our countries to the south of us."

"We really need far more direct engagement from...