House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi went to Texas on Saturday to cash in on the "crisis." As former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel always said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." There, she addressed the thousands of unaccompanied children surging across the border.
"This is a community with a border going through it. And this crisis -- that some call a 'crisis' -- we have to view as an opportunity," she told reporters at a press conference.
"What we just saw was so stunning. If you believe as we do that every child, that every person, has a spark of
divinity in them and is therefore worthy of respect, what we saw in those rooms was a
dazzling, sparkling array of God's children, worthy of respect. So ...
we have to use the crisis -- that some view as a crisis, and it does have crisis qualities -- as an opportunity to show who we are as Americans, that we do respect people for their divinity and worth."